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…"

she read the measurements displayed on

really

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

as back when earth was in its infancy stages, and it

filled with enormous

"Shit."

bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still excited about her current

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

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long. Her eyebrows

a different planet, but how

didn't even know how she got here in the first place. In fact, she

was quietly minding her own business in her lab when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam! She found

was going

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

from Melissa, in

"What's that?"

glanced to the

distance, her heart tightened as she felt a sense of existential doom. There

shot into the sky as she stared at

sky

"This phenomenon..."

and leapt

of a larger tree. 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."

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

was a

large scaled mana

by demons to convert the mana in the air

mana compressor in the

was able to figure

"I'm not on earth."

the event that a mana compressor of this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've

said for the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that

plants look to be far bigger than anything

snap out of her thoughts as her

"...How did this happen?"

happened so abruptly that she had no idea

an idea of where she was. Little did

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

the help of the rocky wall beside me, I supported my

soft on the side of the wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall

"Is this moss?"

lump on my hand, I brought

"It smells like it…"

knew how

moss on the ground, I turned my

It was dark.

saw

"Huuuu..."

wall and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment, I

corner of the room, I

vertical, and twelve steps

small. Just about the size of

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful

here over a day

extended my hand in the direction of

'Wait.'