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 the machine.

I'm really on a different

rare occasions would it differ, but

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

filled with enormous bugs, and forest

"Shit."

cringe. If there was one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales, made her face contort into weird

Melissa was

it was none other than this place!

"Wait a second..."

however, didn't last

but how

got here in the first place. In fact, she was extremely confused as to why

suddenly, out

what was going

"Hmm…"

the middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly mumbled

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

***

Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

thick canopy of trees and glanced to

sense of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling rising from the pyramid in the distance that set

also shot into the sky as she stared at

the clouds in the sky

"This phenomenon..."

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

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

the structure in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled to

"A mana compressor."

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

was a mana

scaled

device used by demons to convert the mana in the air into demonic

Amanda knew one thing for sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't just any mana compressor. It was

on she was able to

"I'm not on earth."

mana compressor of this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible for it to be

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

size of the plants look to be far bigger

out of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward

"...How did this happen?"

she had no

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

help of the rocky wall beside me, I supported my body

side of the wall. I ripped whatever

"Is this moss?"

feel the texture of the lump on my hand, I brought

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss

the moss on the ground, I turned

It was dark.

around, I saw

"Huuuu..."

on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment,

soon as my foot touched the corner of the room, I

and twelve

small. Just about the size of half

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful

had been here over

extended my hand in the direction of where

'Wait.'