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

shit. I'm really

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

earth was

filled with enormous bugs, and

"Shit."

bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were

aside, Melissa was still excited about

her research, it

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long.

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

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

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

what was going

"Hmm…"

the middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly mumbled to

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

***

from Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

trees and glanced to the distance where

heart tightened as she felt a sense of existential doom. There was this

sky as she stared at the top

in the sky darkened

"This phenomenon..."

was happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as she took

top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was

the structure in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

sure what the pyramid was, but now

a

scaled

to convert the mana in the air into demonic

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

on she was

"I'm not on earth."

or other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible

the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that she had

be

her thoughts as her attention was once

"...How did this happen?"

she had no idea how she

idea of where she

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

of the rocky wall beside me, I supported my

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

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss smelled

dropped the moss on the ground, I turned my attention

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

placed both hands on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment, I was

corner of the room, I

steps vertical, and twelve steps

neither too big nor too small. Just about the size of half a

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful of

had been here over

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

'Wait.'