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…"

wide in surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the machine. Her excitement soon reached an all-time

really on

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

as back when earth was in its infancy

was filled with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales, made her face contort

aside, Melissa was still excited

research, it was

"Wait a second..."

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

a different planet, but how exactly am

place. In fact, she was

business in her lab when suddenly, out of

was

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

from Melissa,

"What's that?"

thick canopy of trees and glanced to

as she felt a sense of existential doom. There was this

purple light also shot into the sky as she stared

clouds in the sky

"This phenomenon..."

Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as she

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

structure in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled to

"A mana compressor."

but now that she could see it

was a

scaled

by demons to convert the mana in the air into

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

was able to figure something

"I'm not on earth."

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

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

of the plants look to be

quick to snap out of her thoughts as her attention was once again

"...How did this happen?"

no idea how she found

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

the rocky wall beside me, I supported

the wall. I ripped whatever it was from

"Is this moss?"

feel the texture of the lump on my

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss

on the ground,

It was dark.

saw

"Huuuu..."

move my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment, I

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

steps vertical, and twelve

small. Just about the size of half a basketball

'I'm thirsty.'

moved toward the area where the liquid was dripping. The

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful of

of now, I had been here over

I extended my hand in the direction

'Wait.'