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

shit. I'm really on a different

rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to this place, the

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

filled with enormous bugs, and

"Shit."

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

aside, Melissa was still excited about her

for her research, it was none other than this place! A place filled with prehistoric

"Wait a second..."

last long.

be on a different planet, but how

fact, she was extremely confused as to

her lab when suddenly, out

what was going

"Hmm…"

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?"

***

Melissa, in

"What's that?"

trees and glanced to the distance where she saw

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

purple light also shot into the sky as she stared at the top

the sky darkened and the

"This phenomenon..."

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

a taller branch of a larger tree. As she once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually

the distance,

"A mana compressor."

pyramid was, but

a mana

scaled mana

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

in the distance wasn't just any mana compressor. It was one designed

point on she was able to figure something

"I'm not on earth."

built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible

environment, as Amanda marvelled at

look to be

as her attention was once again drawn toward

"...How did this happen?"

so abruptly that she had no idea how she found

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

help of the rocky wall beside me, I

as I felt something soft on the side of the wall. I ripped whatever it was

"Is this moss?"

the lump on my

"It smells like it…"

that I knew how moss

dropped the moss on the ground, I

It was dark.

I saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At the moment, I was trying to

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

steps vertical, and

nor too small. Just about

'I'm thirsty.'

toward the area where the liquid was dripping. The

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful

been here over a day and was extremely

more, I extended my hand in the

'Wait.'