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 excitement

really on a

rare occasions would it differ, but it

of oxygen levels were the same as back when earth was

was filled with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs

that aside, Melissa was still excited about her

it was none other than

"Wait a second..."

however, didn't last long. Her

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

In fact, she was extremely confused as to why she

was quietly minding her own business in her lab when suddenly, out of

was

"Hmm…"

pinched the middle of her

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

***

Melissa, in

"What's that?"

of trees and glanced to the distance where she

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

purple light also shot into the sky as she stared

sky darkened and

"This phenomenon..."

and leapt up as she took her eyes off of the

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

in the distance, Amanda

"A mana compressor."

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

was a mana

scaled mana

a device used by demons to convert the

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

point on she was

"I'm not on earth."

a mana compressor of this size had been built on earth, humanity or other races would've discovered it long ago. It

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

to be far bigger than anything I've

of her thoughts as her attention was

"...How did this happen?"

she had no idea how she found herself in

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

beside me, I supported my body as I

on the side of the wall. I ripped whatever it

"Is this moss?"

texture of the lump on my

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss

the moss on the ground, I turned my attention to

It was dark.

saw nothing

"Huuuu..."

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

my foot touched the corner of the room, I could

and twelve steps

Just

'I'm thirsty.'

liquid was dripping. The

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a

I had been here over

I extended my hand in the

'Wait.'