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…"

the measurements displayed on the machine. Her excitement soon

shit. I'm really on a different

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

same as back when earth was in its infancy stages, and it could

place was filled with

"Shit."

the idea of possibly finding bugs

that aside, Melissa was still excited about her current

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

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long. Her eyebrows

I might be on a different planet, but how exactly am

place. In fact, she was extremely confused as to why she suddenly appeared

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

what was going

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

the thick canopy of trees and glanced to the

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

the sky as she stared at

in the sky darkened and the

"This phenomenon..."

of what was happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as she took her

she once again leaped toward the top of another

in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

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

a

large scaled

by demons to convert the mana

the mana compressor in the

she was able to

"I'm not on earth."

earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible for it to be

for the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that she had never seen

to be far bigger than anything I've seen on

to snap out of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward the pyramid in

"...How did this happen?"

happened so abruptly that she had no idea how she found herself in such

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

of the rocky wall beside me, I supported

soft on the side of the wall. I ripped

"Is this moss?"

texture of the lump on my hand, I brought it closer to

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss

moss on the ground, I turned my

It was dark.

around, I saw

"Huuuu..."

on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a

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

and twelve steps

Just

'I'm thirsty.'

the area where the liquid was dripping. The closer I

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful of

of now, I had been here

extended my hand

'Wait.'