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 reached an all-time

really on a different

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

as back when earth was in its infancy stages,

place was filled with enormous

"Shit."

was one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales, made her face contort into weird

that aside, Melissa was still excited

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

"Wait a second..."

excitement, however, didn't last long. Her eyebrows

how exactly am

In fact, she was extremely confused as to why she suddenly appeared here out

her own business in her lab when suddenly, out of

was going

"Hmm…"

her. She pinched the middle

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa,

"What's that?"

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

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 that set her

light also shot into the sky

the clouds in the sky darkened and the sky

"This phenomenon..."

legs and leapt up

As she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was then able to see the pyramid in its

structure in the distance,

"A mana compressor."

she wasn't quite sure what the pyramid was, but now that she could see it better,

a mana

scaled

to convert the mana

thing for sure; the mana compressor in the distance

that point on she was able

"I'm not on earth."

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

as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that she had

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

to snap out of her thoughts as her attention was once

"...How did this happen?"

that she had no idea how she found

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

beside me, I supported my body as

hand as I felt something soft on the side of the wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall and brought it closer to

"Is this moss?"

on my hand, I brought it closer

"It smells like it…"

I knew how

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

It was dark.

saw

"Huuuu..."

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

soon as my foot touched the corner

steps vertical, and

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

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a

here

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

'Wait.'