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 displayed

I'm really on a

78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it

were the same as back when earth was

with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the

aside, Melissa was still

all, if there where shes could collect data for her research, it was none other than this place! A place filled

"Wait a second..."

however, didn't last long. Her

but how exactly am

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

business in her lab when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam! She found

was going

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

trees and glanced to

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

sky as she stared at

clouds in the sky darkened and

"This phenomenon..."

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

tree. As she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was then able to see the pyramid

in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

was, but now that she could see it

a

scaled mana

demons to convert the

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

was able to figure something

"I'm not on earth."

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

as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and

size of the plants look to be far bigger than

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

"...How did this happen?"

she had no idea how

idea of where she was. Little did she think she

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

the rocky wall beside me,

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

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss smelled

the ground, I turned my attention

It was dark.

I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

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

foot touched the corner of the room, I could approximate

vertical, and twelve

Just about the size of half

'I'm thirsty.'

my dry lops together, I moved toward the area where the liquid was dripping. The closer I got, the more pronounced

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

I had been here

more, I extended my hand in the direction of where the sound came

'Wait.'