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 different

exygen was around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to this place, the air was a lot

were the same as back when earth was in

filled with

"Shit."

thought made Melissa cringe. If there was one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding

aside, Melissa was still excited

shes could collect data for her research, it was none other

"Wait a second..."

however, didn't last long.

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

even know how she got here in the first place. In fact, she was extremely

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

was going

"Hmm…"

reality dawned on her. She pinched the middle of her

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

***

from Melissa, in

"What's that?"

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

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 that set her

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

the clouds in the sky darkened and

"This phenomenon..."

Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as she

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

the distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

but

a mana

scaled

by demons to convert the mana in the

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

on she was able

"I'm not on earth."

that a mana compressor of this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it

unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and

plants look to be far bigger

out of her thoughts as her

"...How did this happen?"

had no idea how she found herself in such a

only here to get an idea of where she

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

rocky wall beside me, I supported my

the side of the wall. I

"Is this moss?"

lump on my hand, I

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss

dropped the moss on the ground, I turned my attention to the

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

to move my legs in

touched the corner of the room,

steps vertical, and twelve

too small. Just about the

'I'm thirsty.'

the liquid was dripping. The closer I got, the more pronounced the sound

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful

I had been here over a day

extended my hand in the direction of where

'Wait.'