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…"

wide in surprise as she read the measurements displayed

really on

78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small

when earth was

place was filled with enormous bugs, and forest

"Shit."

was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales,

aside, Melissa was

could collect data for her research, it was none

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long. Her eyebrows knitted

but how exactly am I supposed to go back to earth

got here in the first place. In fact, she

her own business in her lab when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam! She found herself stranded in this unknown

was going

"Hmm…"

her. She pinched the middle of her brows in

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

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

tightened as she felt a sense of existential doom. There was this

shot into the sky

in the sky darkened and

"This phenomenon..."

and leapt up as she took her eyes off of

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

distance, Amanda quietly mumbled to

"A mana compressor."

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

a mana

scaled mana

to convert the mana in the

sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't just any mana compressor. It was one

was able

"I'm not on earth."

mana compressor of this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races

Amanda marvelled at the various

plants look to be far

to snap out of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward the

"...How did this happen?"

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

get an idea of where she was. Little did she

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

beside me, I supported my body as I

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

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss smelled

moss on the ground, I

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

placed both hands on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a

foot touched the corner of the room, I

and twelve

neither too big nor too small. Just about the

'I'm thirsty.'

the liquid was dripping. The

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

had been here over a day and was

I extended my hand in the direction of where

'Wait.'