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…"

read the measurements displayed on the

really on a

but it was only by a small percentage.

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

filled with enormous bugs, and

"Shit."

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,

then, putting that aside, Melissa was

research, it was none

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long. Her eyebrows

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

place. In fact, she was extremely confused as to why she suddenly appeared here out of

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

what was going

"Hmm…"

her. She pinched the middle of

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa,

"What's that?"

through the thick canopy of trees and glanced to the distance where

tightened as she felt a sense of existential doom. There

a bright purple light also shot into the sky as she stared at

in the sky darkened and

"This phenomenon..."

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

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

the structure in the distance, Amanda

"A mana compressor."

what the pyramid was, but now that she could see it better,

was a mana

large scaled mana

by demons to convert the mana in the

thing for sure; the mana compressor in the distance

on she was able

"I'm not on earth."

built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible

could be said for the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants

look to be far bigger

of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn

"...How did this happen?"

that she had no idea how she found herself in such a

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

beside me, I supported my

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

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss

ground, I turned my

It was dark.

I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

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

soon as my foot touched the corner of the room,

and

Just about the

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

now, I had been here

hand in the direction of where the

'Wait.'