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

really

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

of oxygen levels were the same as back when earth was in its infancy stages, and

filled with enormous

"Shit."

most, it was bugs...and the

putting that aside, Melissa was still

there where shes could collect data for her research, it was none other

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long. Her eyebrows

planet, but how exactly am I supposed to go

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

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

was going

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

away from Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

Amanda peered through the thick canopy of trees and glanced to the distance where she saw a tall

tightened as she felt a sense of

light also shot into the sky as she stared at the top of the

clouds in the sky darkened and the

"This phenomenon..."

Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as she took

branch of a larger tree. As she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was then able to see

the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

but now that she could see it better, she

a mana

scaled

by demons to convert the mana in the

in the distance wasn't just any

was able to figure

"I'm not on earth."

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

the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and

plants look to be far bigger than anything I've seen on

thoughts as her attention was

"...How did this happen?"

had no idea how she

she was only here to get an idea of where

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

help of the rocky wall beside me, I supported my body

my hand as I felt something soft on the side of the wall. I ripped

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

I knew how

the moss on the ground,

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

the wall and slowly began to move my legs

my foot touched the corner

vertical, and twelve steps

neither too big nor too small. Just about the

'I'm thirsty.'

the liquid was dripping. The closer I got,

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a

been here

my lips together once more, I extended my hand in the direction

'Wait.'