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…"

she read the measurements displayed on the machine.

I'm really on a

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

place was filled with enormous

"Shit."

the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales, made her face contort into weird

that aside, Melissa was still excited about her current

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

"Wait a second..."

last

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

fact, she was extremely confused

her lab when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam!

what was going

"Hmm…"

faded as reality dawned on her. She pinched the middle of her brows in

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

***

away from Melissa,

"What's that?"

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

felt a sense of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling rising from the

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

in the sky darkened

"This phenomenon..."

and leapt up as she took her eyes

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

the distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

wasn't quite sure what the pyramid was, but now that she could

was a mana

large scaled

to convert the mana in

the mana compressor in the distance wasn't just any mana

on she was

"I'm not on earth."

of this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long

said for the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various

plants look to be far bigger than anything I've

to snap out of her thoughts as her attention was once

"...How did this happen?"

had no idea how she found herself in such

the 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."

beside me, I supported my body

as I felt something soft on the side of the wall. I ripped whatever it

"Is this moss?"

my hand, I brought

"It smells like it…"

that I knew how

ground, I turned my attention to the

It was dark.

I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

and slowly began to move my legs in

corner

and

neither too big nor too small. Just about the

'I'm thirsty.'

liquid

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful of

of now, I had been here over a day

my hand in the direction of

'Wait.'