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…"

measurements displayed on the

I'm really on a

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

same as back when earth was in

with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still excited about her

data for her research, it was

"Wait a second..."

however, didn't last long. Her

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

she got here in the first place. In fact, she

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

was

"Hmm…"

dawned on her. She pinched the middle of her

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

***

Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

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

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

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

the clouds in the sky darkened and the sky turned

"This phenomenon..."

note of what was happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as she took

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

in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

was, but now

a mana

scaled mana

a device used by demons to convert the

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

that point on she was able to

"I'm not on earth."

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

Amanda marvelled at

plants look to be far

her attention was once again drawn

"...How did this happen?"

no idea

here to get an idea of where she was. Little did she think she

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

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

wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall and brought it closer

"Is this moss?"

to feel the texture of the lump on my hand, I brought

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss

the ground, I turned my attention

It was dark.

I saw

"Huuuu..."

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

corner of the room, I

steps vertical, and twelve

big nor too small. Just about the

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful of

had been here over

together once more, I extended my hand in the direction

'Wait.'