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…"

as she read the measurements displayed on the machine. Her excitement soon reached

I'm really on a

occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to this place, the air was a

of oxygen levels were the same as back when earth was in its infancy stages, and it could only mean one

with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

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 excited about

there where shes could collect data for her research, it was none other than this

"Wait a second..."

however, didn't last long. Her eyebrows knitted

be on a different planet, but how exactly am I

In fact, she was extremely confused as to

was quietly minding her own business in her lab when suddenly,

was going

"Hmm…"

middle of her brows

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

***

from Melissa,

"What's that?"

Amanda peered through the thick canopy of trees and glanced to the distance where she

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

a bright purple light also shot into the sky

sky darkened and the sky turned

"This phenomenon..."

was happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up

tree. As she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she

structure in the distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

was, but

a

scaled

to convert the mana in the air into

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

she was able to figure something

"I'm not on earth."

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

the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled

of the plants look to be far bigger than anything I've

thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward the pyramid

"...How did this happen?"

all happened so abruptly that she had no idea how she

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

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

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

"Is this moss?"

the lump on my hand, I brought it closer to my nose and sniffed

"It smells like it…"

I knew how

the moss on the ground, I turned my

It was dark.

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 out how big the room

my foot touched the corner

vertical, and twelve

big nor too small. Just about the size of half

'I'm thirsty.'

together, I 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

my hand in the direction of where the sound

'Wait.'