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.

I'm really on a

to exygen was 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

same as back when earth was in its

place was filled with enormous

"Shit."

it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales, made her face contort into weird

Melissa was still excited about

all, if there where shes could collect data for her research, it was none other than this place! A place filled with

"Wait a second..."

last long. Her eyebrows knitted

planet, but how exactly am

first place. In fact, she was extremely confused as to why she suddenly appeared

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

what was going

"Hmm…"

dawned on her. She pinched the middle of her

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

***

from Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

thick canopy of trees and glanced to the

a sense of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling rising from the pyramid in the distance that

purple light also shot into the sky as she

the sky

"This phenomenon..."

her legs and leapt up as

branch of a larger tree. As she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of

distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

what the pyramid was, but now that

was a mana

large scaled

device used by demons to convert the mana in

the distance wasn't just any mana compressor. It was one designed to completely

was able

"I'm not on earth."

the event that a mana compressor of this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible for it to be on earth, and

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

of the plants look to be far

was quick to snap out of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward the pyramid

"...How did this happen?"

so abruptly that she had no idea how she found

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

me, I supported my body as

wall. I ripped whatever it

"Is this moss?"

lump on my hand, I brought it closer

"It smells like it…"

knew how

the ground,

It was dark.

saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

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

the corner

and twelve steps

nor too small. Just about the

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful

had been here over a day and

extended my hand in the direction of where the

'Wait.'