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

shit. I'm really on a different

would it differ, but

levels were the same as back when earth was in its

place was filled with

"Shit."

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

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still excited about

collect data for her research, it was

"Wait a second..."

excitement, however, didn't last

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

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

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

was going

"Hmm…"

middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly

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

***

away from Melissa, in

"What's that?"

of trees and glanced

felt a sense of

sky as she stared at the

sky darkened and the sky turned

"This phenomenon..."

what was happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as

perfectly on a taller branch 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."

but now that she could see it better, she was

was a

scaled mana

demons to convert the

in the distance wasn't just any mana compressor.

on she was

"I'm not on earth."

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

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

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

out of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward the pyramid in the

"...How did this happen?"

she had no idea how she found

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."

wall beside me, I supported my body as I stumbled

side of the wall. I ripped whatever it

"Is this moss?"

the lump on my hand,

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss smelled

moss on the ground, I

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

legs in a sideways motion. At the moment, I was trying to

soon as my foot touched the corner of the room, I could approximate its

vertical, and twelve steps

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

'I'm thirsty.'

together, I moved toward the area where the liquid was dripping.

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a

I had been here over

together once more, I extended my hand in the direction

'Wait.'