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 machine. Her excitement soon reached an

I'm really on a

21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it

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

was filled with enormous

"Shit."

despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that

putting that aside, Melissa was still excited about

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

"Wait a second..."

last long. Her eyebrows knitted

how exactly am I supposed to go

place. In fact, she

lab when suddenly, out of

was going

"Hmm…"

the middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly mumbled

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

***

from Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

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

sense of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling rising from the pyramid in

light also shot into the sky as

sky darkened

"This phenomenon..."

legs and leapt up

again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was then able to see the

the structure in the distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

wasn't quite sure what the pyramid was, but now that she could see it better, she

a mana

large scaled mana

a device used by demons to convert the mana in the air into demonic

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

was able to

"I'm not on earth."

of this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've

said for the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants

look to be

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

"...How did this happen?"

abruptly that she had no idea how she found

was only here to get an idea of

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

wall beside me, I

of the wall. I

"Is this moss?"

texture of the lump on my hand, I brought it closer to my nose and sniffed

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss smelled

the ground, I turned my attention to the

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

move my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment, I was trying to figure out how big the

foot touched the corner of the room, I could

steps vertical, and

small. Just

'I'm thirsty.'

my dry lops together, I moved toward the area where the liquid was dripping. The closer I

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a

now, I had been here over a day

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

'Wait.'