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…"

read the measurements displayed on the

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

back when earth was

place was filled with

"Shit."

there was one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the

aside, Melissa was still excited

research, it was none other than this place! A

"Wait a second..."

excitement, however, didn't last long. Her eyebrows knitted

a different planet, but how exactly am I supposed to go back to earth

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

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

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?"

***

away from Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

through the thick canopy of trees and glanced to the distance where she saw

sense of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling

shot into the sky as she stared at the top of

sky darkened and the sky turned

"This phenomenon..."

happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up

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 pyramid in its

the structure in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled to

"A mana compressor."

quite sure what the pyramid was, but now that she could

a mana

scaled mana

to convert the

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

on she was able to figure something

"I'm not on earth."

races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible for it to be on earth, and she knew

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

look to be far bigger than anything

as her attention was once again

"...How did this happen?"

so abruptly that she had no idea how she found

she was only here to get an idea of where she was. Little did she think she was on

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

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

the side of the wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall and brought it closer

"Is this moss?"

the texture of the lump on my

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss

the moss on the ground,

It was dark.

I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

placed both hands on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in

as my foot touched the corner of the room, I could approximate its

vertical, and twelve

too big nor too small. Just about the size of half a

'I'm thirsty.'

liquid was dripping. The closer I got, the more

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful of

now, I had been here over a

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

'Wait.'