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

I'm really on a

rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to this place,

oxygen levels were the same as back when earth was in its infancy stages, and it could only

was filled with enormous bugs, and

"Shit."

cringe. If there was one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea

Melissa was still excited about her current

research, it was none other than this place! A

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long. Her

different planet, but how exactly am I supposed to go back to

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

her own business in her lab when suddenly, out

was going

"Hmm…"

She pinched the middle of her

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

thick canopy of trees and glanced to the distance where she saw a tall black

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

a bright purple light also shot into the sky as she stared at

the sky darkened and the

"This phenomenon..."

leapt up as she took her eyes off of

tree. As she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and

in the distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

pyramid was, but now that she could

a mana

large scaled mana

used by demons to convert the

in the distance wasn't just any mana compressor. It was one

was

"I'm not on earth."

the event that a mana compressor of this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible for it to be on earth,

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

the plants look to be far bigger than anything I've

snap out of her thoughts as her attention

"...How did this happen?"

had no idea how she found herself

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

the help of the rocky wall beside me, I supported my body as I

as I felt something soft on the side of the wall. I

"Is this moss?"

lump on my hand, I brought

"It smells like it…"

I knew how

ground, I turned my attention

It was dark.

saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At

touched the corner

vertical, and twelve

too small. Just about

'I'm thirsty.'

area where the liquid was dripping. The

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful

of now, I had been here over a day

my lips together once more, I extended my hand in the direction of

'Wait.'