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…"

opened wide in surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the machine. Her

I'm really on a different

of nitrogen to exygen was around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small

level of oxygen levels were the same as back when earth was in its infancy stages,

place was filled with

"Shit."

the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of

putting that aside, Melissa was

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

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long. Her eyebrows knitted

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

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

in her lab when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam!

was going

"Hmm…"

her. She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly mumbled to

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

***

from Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

and glanced to the distance where she

moment Amanda saw the pyramid in the distance, her heart tightened as she felt a sense of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling rising from the pyramid in the distance that set

into the sky as she stared

in the sky

"This phenomenon..."

note of what was happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up

again leaped toward the top of another branch,

distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

sure what the pyramid was, but now that she could see it better, she

was a mana

large scaled

to convert the mana in the

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

was able

"I'm not on earth."

or other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible for

for the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the

the plants look to be far bigger than anything

out of her thoughts as her attention was once again

"...How did this happen?"

all happened so abruptly that she had no idea

an idea of where she was. Little did

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

me, I supported my body

on the side of the wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall

"Is this moss?"

the lump on my hand,

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss

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

It was dark.

I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

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

soon as my foot touched the corner

steps vertical, and twelve

was neither too big nor too small. Just

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

I had been here over a day and was extremely

hand in

'Wait.'