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…"

the measurements displayed

I'm really

On 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

place was filled with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

made Melissa cringe. If there was one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales, made

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still excited about her

collect data for her research, it was none other than this place! A place filled

"Wait a second..."

last long.

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

place. In fact, she was extremely confused

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

what was

"Hmm…"

dawned on her. She pinched the middle

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

***

Melissa,

"What's that?"

the thick canopy of trees and glanced to the

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

the sky

in the sky darkened and the

"This phenomenon..."

her legs and leapt up

once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she

in the distance,

"A mana compressor."

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

was a

scaled mana

device used by demons to convert the mana in the air into

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

she was able to figure

"I'm not on earth."

this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago.

unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants

look to be far bigger than anything

her

"...How did this happen?"

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

here to get an idea of where

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

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

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

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

I knew

ground, I

It was dark.

around, I saw

"Huuuu..."

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

corner

steps vertical, and

small. Just about the size

'I'm thirsty.'

my dry lops together, I moved toward the area where the liquid

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

had been here over a day and

together once more, I extended my hand in the

'Wait.'