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…"

the measurements displayed on the machine. Her excitement soon

I'm really on

earth, the percentage of nitrogen to exygen was around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only

when earth was in

was filled 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,

aside, Melissa was

her research, 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 to go back

didn't even know how she got here in the first place. In fact, she was extremely

quietly minding her own business in her lab when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam!

was

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

from Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

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

of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling rising from the pyramid in the distance that set her

bright purple light also shot into the sky as she stared at

in the sky darkened and the sky turned

"This phenomenon..."

Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up

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 then able

the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

but now that she could see it better, she

a

scaled mana

used by demons to convert

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

she was able

"I'm not on earth."

this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races

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

of the plants look to be far

of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward the

"...How did this happen?"

she had no idea how she found herself in such a

was only here to get an idea of

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

the rocky wall beside me, I supported my body

wall. I ripped whatever it was from the

"Is this moss?"

lump on my hand, I brought it closer

"It smells like it…"

I knew how

moss on the ground,

It was dark.

I saw

"Huuuu..."

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

the corner of the

and

too big nor too small. Just about the size of

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful

been here over a day and

hand in the direction of where the sound came

'Wait.'