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…"

she read the measurements displayed on the machine.

shit. I'm really on

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

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

with enormous

"Shit."

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

Melissa was still excited about

for her research, it was none other

"Wait a second..."

however, didn't last long. Her

how exactly am I supposed

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

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

was going

"Hmm…"

her. She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly mumbled

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

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

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

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

the clouds in the sky

"This phenomenon..."

happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as she

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

the structure in the distance, Amanda

"A mana compressor."

what the pyramid was, but now that she

a

large scaled

device used by demons to convert

thing for sure; the mana compressor in the distance

on she was able to figure

"I'm not on earth."

earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago.

marvelled at the various

be far bigger than anything I've

her attention was once

"...How did this happen?"

all happened so abruptly that she had no idea how she

the moment, she was only here to get an idea of where

...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

"Is this moss?"

my hand to feel the texture of the lump on my hand, I brought

"It smells like it…"

that I knew

on the ground, I

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

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

my foot touched the corner of

and twelve steps

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

'I'm thirsty.'

my dry lops together, I moved toward the area where the liquid was dripping. The closer

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

I had been here

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

'Wait.'