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…"

as she read the measurements displayed on the machine. Her

I'm really on a

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

same as back when earth was in its

place was filled with enormous bugs, and forest

"Shit."

made Melissa cringe. If there was one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still

if there where shes could collect data for her research, it was

"Wait a second..."

last

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

got here in the first place. In fact, she

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

what was going

"Hmm…"

middle of her brows in annoyance as

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

***

away from Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

and glanced to the distance where she saw a tall black

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

into the sky

the clouds in the sky darkened and

"This phenomenon..."

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

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 to see the pyramid in its

the distance,

"A mana compressor."

pyramid was, but

a

scaled

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

in the distance wasn't just

she was

"I'm not on earth."

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

for the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that she had

be far bigger than anything I've

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

"...How did this happen?"

that she had no idea how she found herself in such

here to get an idea of where she

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

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

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

"Is this moss?"

feel the texture of the lump on my hand, I brought it closer to my

"It smells like it…"

knew how

ground, I turned my attention

It was dark.

around, I saw

"Huuuu..."

the wall and slowly began to move my legs

corner of the room,

and twelve steps

small. Just about

'I'm thirsty.'

the liquid was dripping. The

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful

had been here over a day

more, I extended my hand in

'Wait.'