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 machine. Her excitement

really on a

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

as back when earth was in its infancy stages, and it could

place was filled with enormous

"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

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still

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

"Wait a second..."

excitement, however, didn't last

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

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

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

was going

"Hmm…"

middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly mumbled

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

***

Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

of trees and glanced to

Amanda 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

into the sky

sky darkened and the sky

"This phenomenon..."

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

on a taller 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 was then able to see the

distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

but now that she could see it

was a

scaled mana

demons to convert the mana in the air into

compressor in the distance wasn't just any

on she was able

"I'm not 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

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

to be far bigger than

snap out of her thoughts as her attention was once again

"...How did this happen?"

happened so abruptly that she had no idea how she found herself in such

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

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

my hand as I felt something soft on the side of the wall. I ripped whatever

"Is this moss?"

on my hand, I

"It smells like it…"

knew

ground, I turned

It was dark.

I saw

"Huuuu..."

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

touched the corner of

and twelve steps

nor too small. Just

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

had been here over a day and was

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

'Wait.'