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…"

surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the

shit. I'm really on a

around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was

of oxygen levels were the same as back when earth

with enormous bugs, and

"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

then, putting that aside, Melissa was

her research, it was

"Wait a second..."

however, didn't last

how exactly am I

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

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

was going

"Hmm…"

excitement faded as reality dawned on her. She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as she

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

***

Melissa, in

"What's that?"

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

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

purple light also shot into the sky as she

clouds in the sky

"This phenomenon..."

was happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up

on a taller 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

in the distance, Amanda

"A mana compressor."

quite sure what the pyramid was, but now that she

was a mana

large scaled

by demons to convert the mana in the air into

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

point on she was able

"I'm not on earth."

earth, humanity or other races would've discovered

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

be far bigger than anything

out of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward the pyramid in the

"...How did this happen?"

that she had no idea how she found

an idea of where she was. Little

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

the rocky wall beside me, I supported my body as I

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 brought it closer to

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss

the moss on the ground, I turned my attention to the

It was dark.

I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

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

touched the corner of the room, I could approximate

and twelve

small. Just about the size

'I'm thirsty.'

moved toward the area where the liquid was dripping. The closer I got, the more pronounced the

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a

of now, I had been here over a day and

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

'Wait.'