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

really on a different

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 a lot more rich in

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

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still

her research, it was none other than this place! A

"Wait a second..."

last

might be on a different planet, but how exactly am I supposed to go back to

In fact, she was

when suddenly, out of nowhere,

was going

"Hmm…"

on her. She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa,

"What's that?"

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

as she felt a sense of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling rising from

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

the clouds in the sky darkened and the

"This phenomenon..."

Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as she took her eyes off of the pyramid-like

once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree

distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

wasn't quite sure what the pyramid was, but

was a mana

scaled

used by demons to convert the

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

that point on she was able to figure something

"I'm not on earth."

size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply

Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that she had never

to be far bigger than anything I've

out of her thoughts as her attention was

"...How did this happen?"

all happened so abruptly that she had no idea how she found herself in such a

the moment, she was only here to get an idea of where she was. Little did she think she

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

help of the rocky wall beside me, I

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

"Is this moss?"

the lump on my hand, I brought it closer

"It smells like it…"

that I knew how

moss on the ground, I turned my attention to the

It was dark.

saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in

the corner of

and twelve

was neither too big nor too small. Just about

'I'm thirsty.'

my dry lops together, I moved toward the area where the liquid was dripping. The

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a

been here over a day and was

more, I extended my hand in the direction of where the sound

'Wait.'