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…"

measurements displayed

I'm really on a

but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to this place, the air was a lot more

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

filled with enormous

"Shit."

the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs

Melissa was still

could collect data for her research, it

"Wait a second..."

excitement, however, didn't last long. Her

planet, but how exactly am I supposed

the first place. In fact,

suddenly, out of nowhere, bam!

was

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

from Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

and glanced to the distance where she saw a tall

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

shot into the sky as she stared

in the sky darkened and the sky

"This phenomenon..."

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

branch of a larger 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

the structure in the distance, Amanda

"A mana compressor."

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

a

large scaled mana

to convert the mana in

the distance wasn't just any mana compressor. It

that point on she was able to figure something

"I'm not on earth."

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

for the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that

to be far bigger than anything

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

"...How did this happen?"

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

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

rocky wall beside me, I supported

on the side of the wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall and brought it

"Is this moss?"

on my hand, I brought it closer to my nose

"It smells like it…"

that I knew how moss

ground, I turned my attention to

It was dark.

I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

deep breath, I placed both hands on the wall and slowly began to move my legs

corner of the

vertical, and

too big nor too small. Just about

'I'm thirsty.'

area where the liquid was dripping. The closer

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

here over a

extended my hand in the direction of where the sound came

'Wait.'