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…"

eyes opened wide in surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the machine. Her excitement soon reached an all-time

shit. I'm really on a

On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to this

levels were the same as back when earth was in its

place was filled with enormous bugs, and forest

"Shit."

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

Melissa was still excited

could collect data for her research, it

"Wait a second..."

excitement, however, didn't last long. Her eyebrows

planet, but how exactly am

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

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

what was

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

from Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

and glanced to the distance where she 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

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

in the sky darkened and the

"This phenomenon..."

and leapt up as she

branch of a larger tree. As she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and

distance, Amanda quietly mumbled to

"A mana compressor."

pyramid was, but now that she could

a

large scaled

device used by demons to convert the mana

the distance, Amanda knew one thing for sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't just any mana compressor. It was one

that point on she was able to

"I'm not on earth."

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

the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that she had

be far bigger

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

"...How did this happen?"

so abruptly that she had no idea how

an idea of where she was. Little did she think she was on another

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

the rocky wall beside me, I supported

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

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

that I knew

moss on the ground, I turned my

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment, I was trying to figure out how big

my foot touched the corner of the room, I could

and twelve

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

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a

I had been here over a day

my hand in the direction of where the sound

'Wait.'