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…"

opened wide in surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the machine. Her excitement soon reached an all-time

really

differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to

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

with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales, made her face contort

Melissa was still excited about her

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

"Wait a second..."

last long. Her

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

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

suddenly, out

what was

"Hmm…"

middle of her brows in annoyance as

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

***

away from Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

glanced

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

sky as she

the sky darkened and the sky

"This phenomenon..."

tensed her legs and leapt up as she took her eyes off

of a larger tree. As she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree

the distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

what the pyramid was, but

a mana

large scaled

by demons to convert the mana in the

knew one thing for sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't just any mana compressor. It

point on she was able to figure something

"I'm not on earth."

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

as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that

the plants look to be far bigger than anything

of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward the

"...How did this happen?"

had no idea how she found herself in such a

of where she was. Little

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

wall beside me, I supported my body as I stumbled

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

"Is this moss?"

to feel the texture of the lump on my hand, I

"It smells like it…"

that I knew

the ground,

It was dark.

I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

my legs in a sideways motion.

the corner of the room, I could

steps vertical, and twelve steps

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

'I'm thirsty.'

area where the liquid was dripping. The closer

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful

I had been here over

extended my hand in the direction of where

'Wait.'