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…"

surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the

really on a

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

as back when earth was in its infancy stages,

with enormous

"Shit."

there was one 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

was still excited about

all, if there where shes could collect data for her research, it was none

"Wait a second..."

last long.

but how exactly am I supposed to go back to

she got here in the first place. In fact,

quietly minding her own business in her lab when suddenly, out of nowhere, bam! She found herself stranded

what was

"Hmm…"

pinched the middle of her brows in annoyance as she quietly mumbled to

"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 where she saw a

the distance, her heart tightened as she felt a sense of existential doom.

light also shot into the sky as she stared

the sky darkened and

"This phenomenon..."

happening, Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up as she took her eyes off of

leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree

the distance,

"A mana compressor."

but now that she could see it better, she

a mana

large scaled

used by demons to convert the mana

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

point on she was able to

"I'm not on earth."

or other races would've discovered it long ago. It was simply impossible for it to be on earth,

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

of the plants look to be far

as her attention was once

"...How did this happen?"

so abruptly that she had no idea how she found herself

the moment, she was only here to get an idea of where

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

wall beside me, I supported my body

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

"Is this moss?"

my hand, I brought it

"It smells like it…"

I knew how

I dropped the moss on the ground, I turned my attention

It was dark.

around, I saw nothing but

"Huuuu..."

to move my legs in a sideways motion. At

soon as my foot touched the corner

and twelve

big nor too small. Just

'I'm thirsty.'

together, I moved toward the area where the liquid was dripping. The closer I got, the more pronounced the sound

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful of

been here over a day

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

'Wait.'