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

shit. I'm really

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

oxygen levels were the same as back when earth was in

filled with enormous bugs, and

"Shit."

thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still

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

"Wait a second..."

excitement, however, didn't last long. Her

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

here in the first place. In fact, she was

her own business in her lab when suddenly, out

was going

"Hmm…"

the middle of her

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

***

from Melissa,

"What's that?"

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

moment Amanda saw the pyramid in the distance, her heart tightened as she felt a sense of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling rising from the pyramid in the distance that set

bright purple light also shot into the sky

the sky darkened and

"This phenomenon..."

leapt up as she took her eyes off of

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

distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

she wasn't quite sure what the pyramid was, but now that she could see it better,

a mana

scaled

demons to convert the mana in

for sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't

was

"I'm not on earth."

other races

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

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

thoughts as her attention was once again

"...How did this happen?"

abruptly that she had no idea how she found

of where she was. Little

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

wall beside me, I supported my body as I

side of the wall.

"Is this moss?"

the texture of the lump on my hand, I brought it closer to my nose and

"It smells like it…"

I knew how

I dropped the moss on the ground, I turned

It was dark.

I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

hands on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion.

my foot touched the corner of the room, I

vertical, and twelve

neither too big nor too small. Just about

'I'm thirsty.'

area where the liquid was dripping. The closer

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful of

been here over a day and was

my lips together once more, I extended my hand in the

'Wait.'