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 soon reached an

shit. I'm really on a different

the 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

the same as back when earth was in its

with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

thought made 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 her face contort into

that aside, Melissa was still excited about her

it was none other than this place! A place filled

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long. Her eyebrows

might be on a different planet, but how exactly am I supposed

In fact, she was extremely confused as to

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

was

"Hmm…"

on her. She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

trees and glanced to the distance where she saw a tall black

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

light also shot into the sky

in the sky darkened and the

"This phenomenon..."

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

again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was then able to

the structure in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled to

"A mana compressor."

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

a mana

large scaled mana

demons to convert

compressor in the distance wasn't just

she was

"I'm not on earth."

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

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

be far bigger than

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

"...How did this happen?"

had no idea how

moment, she was only here to get an idea of where she was. Little did

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

wall beside me, I supported my body

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

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

that I knew how moss

I dropped the moss on the ground, I turned my

It was dark.

I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

move my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment, I was trying to figure out how big the room

as my foot touched the corner of the room, I could

vertical, and

too big nor too small. Just

'I'm thirsty.'

the liquid was dripping. The closer I got, the

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful

here

my hand in the direction of where

'Wait.'