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…"

surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the

I'm really on a different

rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage.

when earth was in its

was filled with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

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 her face

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still

it was none other than this place! A place filled with

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long. Her

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

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

minding her own business in her lab when suddenly, out of nowhere,

was going

"Hmm…"

reality dawned on her. She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly mumbled

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

***

Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

Amanda peered through the thick canopy of trees and glanced to the distance

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

purple light also shot into the sky as she stared at the top of the

the sky

"This phenomenon..."

Amanda tensed her legs and leapt

the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was then able to see the pyramid in

structure in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

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

a mana

large scaled

convert

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

point on she was able

"I'm not on earth."

races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible

same could be said for the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that she had never

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

quick to snap out of her thoughts as her attention

"...How did this happen?"

so abruptly that she had no idea how she found herself

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

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

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

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss

ground, I turned my

It was dark.

I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

deep breath, I placed both hands on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a

the corner of the

and twelve

big nor too small. Just about the size of

'I'm thirsty.'

the liquid was dripping. The

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a

I had been here over

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

'Wait.'