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…"

eyes opened wide in surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the machine. Her excitement

I'm really on a

of nitrogen to exygen was around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small

the same as back when earth was in its infancy stages, and

was filled with

"Shit."

bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that

was still excited

collect data for her research, it was none other than this place! A place filled

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long.

how exactly am I supposed

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

suddenly, out of nowhere, bam! She found herself stranded

was going

"Hmm…"

She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as

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

***

Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

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

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

shot into the sky as she stared at the top

the sky darkened and the sky

"This phenomenon..."

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

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

in the distance,

"A mana compressor."

quite sure what the pyramid was, but

a

scaled mana

convert the

one thing for sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't just any mana compressor. It was one designed to

that point on she was able to figure

"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

same 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 I've seen on

thoughts as her attention was once

"...How did this happen?"

that she had no idea how she found

an idea of where she was. Little did she think she

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

me, I supported my body as I

on the side of the wall.

"Is this moss?"

feel the texture of the lump on my hand,

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss

dropped the moss on the ground, I

It was dark.

saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways

touched the corner

and

nor too small. Just about the size of half a

'I'm thirsty.'

liquid was dripping. The closer I got, the

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful

here over

I extended my hand in the direction of

'Wait.'