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

shit. I'm really on a

differ, but it was only

of oxygen levels were the same as back when earth was

place was filled with enormous bugs, and forest

"Shit."

Melissa cringe. If there was one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales, made her

that aside, Melissa was still excited

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

"Wait a second..."

last

be on a different planet, but how exactly

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

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

what was going

"Hmm…"

faded as reality dawned on her. She pinched the middle of her brows

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

***

Melissa, in

"What's that?"

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

felt a sense of existential doom. There was this suffocating

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

clouds in the sky

"This phenomenon..."

tensed her legs and leapt up as she took her eyes off

leaped toward the top of another branch,

distance,

"A mana compressor."

the pyramid was, but now

a mana

large scaled mana

to convert the

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

that point on she was able to figure

"I'm not on earth."

on earth, humanity or other races

marvelled at

the plants look to be far bigger than anything

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

"...How did this happen?"

happened so abruptly that she had no idea

of where she was.

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

the rocky wall beside me, I supported my body as I stumbled

side of the wall. I ripped whatever it was from the

"Is this moss?"

on my hand, I brought it closer

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss

moss on the ground, I turned my

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

deep breath, I placed both hands on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At

foot touched the corner

vertical, and twelve

was neither too big nor too small. Just about the size of half a

'I'm thirsty.'

lops together, I moved toward the area where the liquid was

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful of

of now, I had been here over a day

more, I extended my hand in

'Wait.'