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…"

in surprise as she read the measurements

shit. I'm really on

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 air was a lot more rich in

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

place was filled with enormous bugs, and forest

"Shit."

thought made Melissa cringe. If there was one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the

putting that aside, Melissa was

her research, it was none other than this place! A place

"Wait a second..."

excitement, however, didn't last long. Her eyebrows

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

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

suddenly, out of nowhere,

what was going

"Hmm…"

pinched the middle of her

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

***

away from Melissa, in

"What's that?"

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

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

into the sky as she

the clouds in the sky darkened

"This phenomenon..."

tensed her legs and leapt up as she took

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

in the distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

was, but now that

was a mana

large scaled mana

device used by demons to convert the mana

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

on she was able to figure something

"I'm not on earth."

been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible

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

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

of her thoughts as her attention was once again

"...How did this happen?"

that she had no idea how she found herself in such a

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

beside me, I

something soft on the side of the wall. I ripped whatever it was from the

"Is this moss?"

the texture of the lump on my hand, I

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss

on the ground, I turned my attention to

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

hands on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment, I was trying to figure

my foot touched the corner of the room,

vertical, and twelve

too big nor too small. Just about the size

'I'm thirsty.'

liquid was dripping. The closer I got, the

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful of

had been here over a day and

once more, I extended my hand in the direction of

'Wait.'