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…"

wide in surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the

shit. I'm really on

of nitrogen to exygen was around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to this place, the

levels were the same as back when earth was in

with

"Shit."

was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding

putting that aside, Melissa was still

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

"Wait a second..."

last long. Her eyebrows knitted

a different planet, but how exactly am

didn't even know how she got here in the first place. In fact, she was extremely confused as to why

business in her lab when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam! She found herself stranded

what was

"Hmm…"

on her. She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance

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

***

from Melissa, in

"What's that?"

glanced to the distance where she saw a tall black

in the distance, her heart tightened as she felt a sense of

bright purple light also shot into the sky as she stared at

clouds in the sky darkened

"This phenomenon..."

note of what was happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up

a taller branch of a larger tree. As she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was then able to see the pyramid in its

in the distance,

"A mana compressor."

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

a

large scaled mana

convert the mana in the air into

for sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't

was able to figure something

"I'm not on earth."

races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible for it

marvelled

of the plants look to be

her

"...How did this happen?"

that she had no idea how she

moment, she was only here to get an idea of where she was. Little did she think she

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

the rocky wall beside me, I supported my body as I

my hand as I felt something soft on the side of the wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall and

"Is this moss?"

the texture of the lump on my

"It smells like it…"

that I knew how moss smelled

ground, I turned

It was dark.

saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At

touched the corner of the room,

steps vertical, and twelve

small. Just about the size of half

'I'm thirsty.'

the liquid

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful

of now, I had been here over a day and was

lips together once more, I extended my hand in the direction of where the

'Wait.'