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 displayed on

shit. I'm really

around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to this place, the air was a lot more rich

of oxygen levels were the same as back when earth was in its infancy stages, and it

place was filled with enormous bugs, and forest

"Shit."

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

putting that aside, Melissa was still excited about her current

it

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long.

I might be on a different planet, but how exactly am I supposed to go back

first place. In fact, she was extremely confused as

lab when suddenly, out of nowhere,

what was going

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

glanced to the distance where she saw

Amanda saw 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

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

the clouds in the sky darkened and the sky

"This phenomenon..."

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

top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was then able to see the pyramid in

structure in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

the pyramid was, but now that she

was a

large scaled

convert the mana in the air into demonic

knew one thing for sure; the mana compressor in the

she was

"I'm not on earth."

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

could be said for the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at

size of the plants look to be far bigger than anything

was quick to snap out of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward

"...How did this happen?"

happened so abruptly that she had no idea how she found

an idea of where she

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

of the rocky wall beside me, I supported my

on the side of the wall.

"Is this moss?"

my hand, I brought it closer to my nose and sniffed

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss smelled

dropped the moss on the ground,

It was dark.

saw

"Huuuu..."

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

as my foot touched the corner of the

vertical, and twelve steps

big nor too small. Just about the

'I'm thirsty.'

where the liquid was dripping. The closer I got, the more pronounced

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful

been here over

once more, I extended my hand in

'Wait.'