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…"

the measurements displayed on the machine.

really on a

nitrogen to exygen was around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to this place, the air was

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

place 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

was still excited about

her research, it was

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long. Her eyebrows knitted

how exactly am I supposed to go back to

in the first place. In fact, she was extremely confused as to why she suddenly appeared

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

was going

"Hmm…"

the middle

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

***

Melissa, in

"What's that?"

and glanced to the distance where

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

shot into the sky as she stared at

sky darkened and

"This phenomenon..."

tensed her legs and leapt up as she took her eyes

she once again leaped toward the top of another branch,

the distance,

"A mana compressor."

was, but now that she could see it better,

a mana

scaled

by demons to convert the mana in the air

for sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't just any mana compressor. It was one designed to completely swallow

she was able to figure

"I'm not on earth."

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

could be said for the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants

to be far bigger than anything I've

thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward the

"...How did this happen?"

no idea how she found herself

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

wall beside me, I supported my body as I stumbled

on the side of the wall. I ripped whatever

"Is this moss?"

the lump on my hand, I brought it closer

"It smells like it…"

knew how

moss on the ground,

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment, I was trying to figure out how big the

the corner of the room, I

steps vertical, and

neither too big nor too small. Just about the size

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

here over a

extended my hand in the direction

'Wait.'