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…"

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

really on a

21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared

level of oxygen levels were the same as back when earth was in its infancy stages,

with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales, made

Melissa was still excited about her

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

"Wait a second..."

excitement, however, didn't last long. Her

on a different planet, but how

she got here in the first place. In fact, she was extremely confused as to why

suddenly, out of nowhere, bam! She found herself stranded

was going

"Hmm…"

faded as reality dawned on her. She pinched the middle

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

***

away from Melissa, in

"What's that?"

of trees and glanced to the distance

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

also shot into the sky as she stared

in the sky darkened

"This phenomenon..."

of what was happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as she

again leaped toward the top of another

the structure in the distance,

"A mana compressor."

quite sure what the pyramid was, but now that she

was a

scaled mana

by demons to convert the mana

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

that point on she was able to

"I'm not on earth."

been built on earth, humanity or other races

unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled

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

snap out of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward the pyramid

"...How did this happen?"

no idea how she found herself in such a

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

wall beside me, I supported my body as I

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

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

that I knew how moss smelled

ground, I turned

It was dark.

I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

to move my legs in a sideways motion. At

as my foot touched the corner of the room, I could approximate

steps vertical, and twelve steps

too small. Just about the size of half

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful of

here over a day and

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

'Wait.'