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…"

in surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the machine. Her

shit. I'm really

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

same as back when earth was

place was filled with enormous

"Shit."

thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size

that aside, Melissa was still excited

where shes could collect data for her research, it was none other than this place! A place

"Wait a second..."

however, didn't last long. Her

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

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

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

what was going

"Hmm…"

pinched the middle of her brows

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

***

Melissa, in

"What's that?"

thick canopy of trees and glanced to

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

shot into the sky as she stared

sky

"This phenomenon..."

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

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

distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

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

a

large scaled mana

demons to convert the mana in the air into demonic

sure; the mana compressor in the distance

point on she was able to

"I'm not on earth."

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, and

Amanda marvelled at the various plants

plants look to be far bigger than anything

her attention was once again drawn toward

"...How did this happen?"

had no idea how she found

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

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

the wall. I ripped whatever it was from

"Is this moss?"

of the lump on my

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss smelled

moss on the ground, I

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

a deep breath, I placed both hands on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment, I was trying to figure out how big

foot touched the corner of the room,

vertical, and

big nor too small. Just about the size of

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

I had been here over a day and was extremely

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

'Wait.'