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 an

shit. I'm really on a different

On rare occasions would it differ, but it was

earth was in its infancy stages, and

with enormous

"Shit."

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

Melissa was still excited about her current

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

"Wait a second..."

however, didn't last long. Her

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

place. In fact, she was extremely confused as to why she suddenly appeared here

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

was going

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

the thick canopy of trees and glanced to the distance where

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

into the sky as she stared at

clouds in the sky darkened and the sky

"This phenomenon..."

Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as she took her eyes off of the

again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually

structure in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

pyramid was, but now that she could see

a mana

scaled

convert the mana in the air into demonic

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

point on she was able to figure

"I'm not on earth."

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 for it

for the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled

plants look to be far bigger than anything I've

of her thoughts as her

"...How did this happen?"

had no idea how

the moment, she was only here to get an idea of

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

the help of the rocky wall beside me, I

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

"Is this moss?"

of the lump on my hand,

"It smells like it…"

that I knew how moss smelled

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

It was dark.

I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

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

the corner of the room, I

and twelve steps

Just about the size of half a basketball

'I'm thirsty.'

moved toward the area where the liquid was dripping. The

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful

been here over a day

hand in the direction of where the sound

'Wait.'