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…"

measurements displayed on the machine.

I'm really on

rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to this place, the air was a lot more rich in

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

was filled with enormous

"Shit."

one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly

putting that aside, Melissa was

if there where shes could collect data for her research, it was

"Wait a second..."

last long. Her

but how exactly am I supposed to go back to earth

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

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

was going

"Hmm…"

She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly mumbled

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa,

"What's that?"

of trees and glanced to the distance where she saw a

Amanda saw the pyramid in the distance, her heart 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

sky

"This phenomenon..."

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

she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the

the structure in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

she wasn't quite sure what the pyramid was, but

a

large scaled

used by demons to convert the mana in the air into

into the distance, Amanda knew one thing for sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't just any mana compressor. It was one designed to completely swallow up

she was

"I'm not on earth."

been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it

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

to be far bigger

thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward the

"...How did this happen?"

had no idea

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

the rocky wall beside me,

of the wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall and

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

that I knew

the ground, I turned my attention to the

It was dark.

I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways

my foot touched the corner of

vertical, and twelve

too big nor too small. Just about the size of half a

'I'm thirsty.'

lops together, I moved toward the area where the liquid was dripping. The closer

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful

been here

I extended my hand in the direction of

'Wait.'