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…"

as she read the measurements displayed on the machine. Her excitement soon

shit. I'm really on a

differ, but it was only by

as back when earth was in its infancy stages, and it could only

was filled with enormous bugs, and forest

"Shit."

the most, it was bugs...and the idea

that aside, Melissa was still excited about her

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

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long. Her

might be on a different planet, but how exactly am I supposed to go back

didn't even know how she got here in the first place. In fact, she was extremely confused as to

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

was

"Hmm…"

excitement faded as reality dawned on her. She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

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

a sense of existential doom.

bright purple light also shot into the sky as she stared

the sky

"This phenomenon..."

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

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

structure in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

pyramid was, but now that she could see it better,

was a

large scaled mana

to convert the

compressor in the distance wasn't just any mana

on she was able

"I'm not on earth."

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

the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that she had never

to be far bigger than anything I've seen

of her thoughts as her attention was

"...How did this happen?"

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

get an idea of where she was. Little did she think she was on another

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

of the rocky wall beside me, I supported my body

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

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

that I knew how

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

It was dark.

I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

breath, I placed both hands on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At

corner of the room, I

steps vertical, and twelve steps

neither too big nor too small. Just about the size of half

'I'm thirsty.'

area where the liquid was dripping. The closer I got, the more pronounced the sound

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful

of now, I had been here over a

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

'Wait.'