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 displayed on the machine.

I'm really on

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

earth was in its infancy stages,

with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

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

putting that aside, Melissa was still

all, if there where shes could collect data for her research, it

"Wait a second..."

excitement, however, didn't last long.

a different planet, but how exactly am I supposed to

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

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 brows

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa,

"What's that?"

through the thick canopy of trees and glanced to the distance

saw the pyramid in the distance, her heart tightened as she felt a sense of existential doom. There was this suffocating

bright purple light also shot into the sky as she

the clouds in the sky darkened and the

"This phenomenon..."

tensed her legs and leapt up as she took her eyes

top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was then able to see the pyramid in its

in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

the pyramid was, but now that she

was a mana

large scaled mana

device used by demons to convert the

in the distance wasn't just any mana compressor.

was able to figure

"I'm not on earth."

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

unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that she had never seen

look to be far bigger

her attention was once again drawn

"...How did this happen?"

no idea how she found herself

the moment, she was only here to get an idea of where she was. Little did she think she was on another

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

wall beside me, I supported my body as I stumbled

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

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

I knew how

on the ground, I turned my

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

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

my foot touched the corner of the room,

steps vertical, and

too small. Just about the size of half a basketball

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful of

now, I had been here over a

hand in the direction of

'Wait.'