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

shit. I'm really on

differ, but it was only

level of oxygen levels were the same as back when earth was in its

place was filled with enormous bugs, and

"Shit."

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

Melissa was

data for her research, it was

"Wait a second..."

last

might be on a different planet, but how

In fact, she was extremely confused as to why she

in her lab when suddenly, out of

was going

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa,

"What's that?"

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

of existential

also shot into the sky as

clouds in the sky darkened and the

"This phenomenon..."

Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as

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

structure in the distance, Amanda

"A mana compressor."

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

a mana

scaled mana

used by demons to convert the

Amanda knew one thing for sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't just any mana

that point on she was able

"I'm not on earth."

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

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

the plants look to be far bigger than anything

her thoughts as her attention was once again

"...How did this happen?"

had no idea how

an idea of where

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

of the rocky wall beside me,

soft on the side of the wall. I ripped whatever

"Is this moss?"

on my hand, I brought

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss

dropped the moss on the ground,

It was dark.

around, I saw

"Huuuu..."

began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment,

soon as my foot touched the corner

steps vertical, and twelve

nor too small. Just about the size of half

'I'm thirsty.'

the liquid was dripping. The closer I got, the more

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

now, I had been here

extended my hand in the direction of where the

'Wait.'