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…"

surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the

shit. I'm really

but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to this

the same as back when earth was in its infancy

filled with enormous bugs, and

"Shit."

thought made 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

putting that aside, Melissa was still

collect data for her research, it was none other than this place! A place filled with

"Wait a second..."

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

how exactly

fact, she was extremely

when suddenly, out

was

"Hmm…"

She pinched the middle of her brows in

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

***

away from Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

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

as she felt a sense of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling rising from the pyramid

a bright purple light also shot into the sky as she

the sky darkened and the sky turned

"This phenomenon..."

tensed her legs and leapt up as she took her eyes off of the pyramid-like

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

structure in the distance, Amanda

"A mana compressor."

wasn't quite sure what the pyramid was, but now

was a mana

large scaled mana

to convert the mana in the

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

she was able

"I'm not on earth."

humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible for

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

plants look to be far bigger than

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

"...How did this happen?"

abruptly that she had no idea how she found

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

rocky wall beside me, I supported my body as I

soft on the side of the wall. I ripped whatever

"Is this moss?"

hand to feel the texture of the lump on my

"It smells like it…"

I knew

ground, I turned my

It was dark.

saw

"Huuuu..."

deep breath, I placed both hands 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 the room

touched the corner

steps vertical, and twelve steps

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

'I'm thirsty.'

I moved toward the area where the liquid was dripping. The

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful of

now, I had been here over a day

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

'Wait.'