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.

I'm really on a

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

when earth was in its infancy stages, and it could

filled with enormous bugs, and forest

"Shit."

she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales, made her face contort into weird

that aside, Melissa was still excited about her current

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

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long. Her eyebrows

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

didn't even know how she got here in the first place. In fact,

minding her own business in her lab when suddenly, out

was

"Hmm…"

pinched the middle of

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

***

Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

peered through the thick canopy of trees and glanced to the distance

as she felt a sense of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling rising from the pyramid in the distance that

shot into the sky as she stared

the clouds in the sky darkened and the sky turned

"This phenomenon..."

Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up

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

distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

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

a

scaled mana

demons to convert the mana in the air into

the mana compressor in the

on she was able to figure something

"I'm not on earth."

that a mana 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 be on

Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that she had never seen

to be far bigger

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

"...How did this happen?"

no idea how she found herself in such a

idea of where

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

the rocky wall beside me, I

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

"Is this moss?"

lump on my

"It smells like it…"

knew how moss smelled

ground, I

It was dark.

saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

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

my foot touched the corner

steps vertical, and twelve steps

too big nor too small. Just about

'I'm thirsty.'

the area where the liquid was

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful

had been here

once more, I extended my hand in the direction of where the sound

'Wait.'