The Author's POV

'It's bright.'

Squinting, Melissa covered her face with her hand to block the light coming from above. It was really bright. Bright enough to make her eyes feel sore.

"Ugh."

Her mind was rather groggy at the moment and she wanted nothing more than to sleep at the moment.

She felt tired. Extremely so.

But…

"The fuck!?"

With a sharp snap of her eyelids, Melissa stirred out of her slumber.

After her mind sobered up a bit and she recalled the events leading up to her finding herself in this state, she immediately felt uneasy.

"Shit, where are my glasses?"

In search of her glasses, Melissa tapped the ground with her hands.

It was difficult for Melissa to see anything without her glasses, as everything around her was extremely blurry.

"Where are they?"

Touching around her and only feeling what felt like thick hard grass, Melissa's brows knit tightly.

"I knew it."

Melissa muttered to herself as her face twisted in displeasure.

"…I knew that I shouldn't have agreed with Ren's deal. Whenever I do something with him, I'm always hit with the worst of luck. Now I probably lost my glasses and will never find them ag—"

Right at that moment, Melissa felt something in her hand. Carefully touching it and recognizing its shape, she grabbed the item and put them on her face.

"Nevermind."

She mumbled to herself as she got up and took a look at her surroundings.

"Still doesn't change what I previo—huh?"

Melissa's jaw grew slack as gazed into the distance.

She was left in awe by what she saw as she struggled to comprehend the scene in front of her at that moment..

"…Where in the world am I?"

The scenery…

It looked like nothing like she had ever seen before.

A majestic forest of thick canopy trees bent at different angles covered the northwest part of the landscape. A vivid palette of rose, amber, and violet feathers shaped leaved replaced the regular looking ones to create a breathtaking spectacle.

The air was thin and easy to breathe as Melissa had no trouble breathing.

But…

"This is not earth."

Melissa was quick to guess that something was wrong with this place. It had no semblance of the earth she knew.

"How is this possible?"

Rather than being flustered, Melissa's eyes twinkled with an uncommon excitement.

"It can't be right?"

By tapping her bracelet, she took a tiny device out of her dimensional space and pressed the small button that sat atop of it.

Beep—! Beep—!

A beeping sound echoed out.

"61% nitrogen, and 30%% oxygen…"

opened wide in surprise as she read the measurements

I'm really on a different

percentage of nitrogen to exygen was around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was

back when earth was in

was filled with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales,

that aside, Melissa was still

could collect data for her research, it was none other than

"Wait a second..."

last long. Her eyebrows

different planet, but how exactly am I supposed to go

got here in the first place. In fact,

when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam! She found herself

what was

"Hmm…"

on her. She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly

"I'm fucked, aren't I?"

***

Melissa,

"What's that?"

peered through the thick canopy of trees and glanced to the distance where she saw a

the pyramid in the distance, her heart tightened as she felt a sense of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling rising from the pyramid in the distance that set

light also shot into the sky as she stared at

sky darkened and the sky turned

"This phenomenon..."

what was happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as she took her

a taller branch of a larger tree. As she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the

the distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

the pyramid was, but now that she could see it better, she was

a

large scaled

device used by demons to convert the mana in the

thing for sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't just any

point on she was

"I'm not on earth."

event that a mana compressor of this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It

as Amanda marvelled at the various plants

size of the plants look to be far bigger than anything I've seen on

out of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn

"...How did this happen?"

all happened so abruptly that she had no idea how

of where she was. Little did she think she

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

of the rocky wall beside me, I supported my

the wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall and brought it closer to

"Is this moss?"

of the lump on my hand, I brought it closer to my

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss

moss on the ground, I

It was dark.

I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

to move my legs in a sideways motion. At the

as my foot touched the corner of the room, I

vertical, and twelve

neither too big nor too small. Just about the size of half a

'I'm thirsty.'

area where the liquid was dripping. The closer

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

had been here over a day and

lips together once more, I extended my hand

'Wait.'