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…"

measurements displayed on the machine. Her excitement soon reached an

really on

around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it

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

was filled with

"Shit."

she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still

shes could collect data for her research, it was none

"Wait a second..."

however, didn't last long. Her

might be on a different planet, but how exactly am I supposed

fact, she

business in her lab when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam! She found herself stranded in this unknown

was going

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

away from Melissa,

"What's that?"

the thick canopy of trees and glanced to

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

a bright purple light also shot into the sky

in the sky darkened and the

"This phenomenon..."

tensed her legs and leapt up as she took her eyes off of the pyramid-like

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

in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled to

"A mana compressor."

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

a mana

large scaled

demons to convert the mana in the

into the distance, Amanda knew one thing for sure; the mana compressor in the distance wasn't

on she was

"I'm not on earth."

compressor of this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible for it to

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

look to be far bigger

of her thoughts as her attention was

"...How did this happen?"

no

get an idea of where she was. Little did she think

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

rocky wall beside me, I supported my body as

on the side of the wall.

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

knew how

on the ground,

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment, I was trying to figure out how

touched the corner of the room, I could

steps vertical, and twelve

neither too big nor too small. Just about the size of

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful of

here

more, I extended my hand

'Wait.'