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…"

wide in surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the machine. Her excitement soon reached an all-time

I'm really on a different

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

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

place was filled with enormous bugs, and

"Shit."

thing 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

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still excited about her

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

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long. Her eyebrows

a different planet, but how exactly am I supposed

didn't even know how she got here in the first place. In fact, she was extremely confused as to why

when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam! She found herself

what was going

"Hmm…"

reality dawned on her. She pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

through the thick canopy of trees and glanced to

of

bright purple light also shot into the sky

clouds in the sky darkened and the

"This phenomenon..."

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

perfectly on a taller branch 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

structure in the distance,

"A mana compressor."

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

a mana

scaled

to convert

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

on she was able to figure

"I'm not on earth."

humanity or other races would've discovered it long

the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that she had never

plants look to be

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

"...How did this happen?"

abruptly that she had no idea how she

idea of where she was.

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

the rocky wall beside me, I supported my body as I

wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall and

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

that I knew

moss on the ground, I turned my

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

a deep breath, 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

touched the corner of the room, I could approximate its

and twelve steps

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

'I'm thirsty.'

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

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful of

of now, I had been here over a day and was extremely

together once more, I extended my hand in the

'Wait.'