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

shit. I'm really on a different

earth, the percentage of nitrogen to exygen was around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to this place,

same as back when earth

with enormous bugs, and forest

"Shit."

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

was still

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

"Wait a second..."

didn't last

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

know how she got here in the first place. In fact, she was extremely confused

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

what was going

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

through the thick canopy of trees and glanced to

distance, her heart tightened as she felt a sense of

the sky as she stared at the top

in the sky darkened

"This phenomenon..."

and leapt up as she took her eyes off of the

larger tree. As she once again leaped toward the top of another

the structure in the distance,

"A mana compressor."

the pyramid was, but now that she could see it

was a mana

scaled

device used by demons to convert the mana in

the distance wasn't just any mana compressor. It was one designed to completely swallow

she was

"I'm not on earth."

that a mana compressor of this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It

Amanda marvelled at

the plants look to be far bigger than anything

as her attention was once again drawn toward

"...How did this happen?"

had no

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."

beside me,

felt something soft on the side of the wall.

"Is this moss?"

the texture of the lump on my hand, I

"It smells like it…"

that I knew

dropped the moss on the ground, I turned my attention to the

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways

as my foot touched the corner of the room, I

steps vertical, and twelve steps

Just about the size of

'I'm thirsty.'

moved toward the area where the liquid was dripping. The

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

of now, I had been here

my lips together once more, I extended my hand

'Wait.'