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…"

measurements displayed on the machine. Her excitement soon reached

I'm really on a

21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to

back when earth was

was filled with enormous

"Shit."

Melissa 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, made

that aside, Melissa was still excited about her current

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

"Wait a second..."

however, didn't last long.

how exactly am I supposed to go back to

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

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

was

"Hmm…"

excitement faded as reality dawned on her. She pinched the middle

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

***

away from Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

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

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

light also shot into the sky as she stared at the

clouds in the sky darkened and the

"This phenomenon..."

leapt up as she took her eyes

once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was then able to see the pyramid in its

distance, Amanda quietly mumbled to

"A mana compressor."

she wasn't quite sure what the pyramid was, but now that she could see

was a mana

scaled mana

used by demons to convert the mana

thing for sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't just

point on she was

"I'm not on earth."

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

Amanda marvelled

the plants look to be far bigger than

thoughts as her attention was once

"...How did this happen?"

she had no idea

of where she was. Little did

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

help of the rocky wall beside me, I supported my

I felt something soft on the side of the wall. I

"Is this moss?"

on my hand, I brought

"It smells like it…"

that I knew

on the ground, I turned

It was dark.

I saw

"Huuuu..."

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

soon as my foot touched the corner of the room,

vertical, and

small. Just about the size of half a basketball

'I'm thirsty.'

the liquid

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

had been here over a day and

my hand in the direction of where the

'Wait.'