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

shit. I'm really on

percentage of nitrogen to exygen was around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage. Compared to this place, the air was a lot

levels were the same as back when earth was in

place was filled with enormous bugs, and

"Shit."

the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of

putting that aside, Melissa was still excited

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

"Wait a second..."

excitement, however, didn't last long. Her

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

here in the first place. In fact, she was extremely confused as to

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

was going

"Hmm…"

pinched the middle of her

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa, in

"What's that?"

and glanced to the distance where she saw a tall

Amanda saw the pyramid in the distance, her heart tightened as she felt a sense of existential

purple light also shot into the sky

sky

"This phenomenon..."

Amanda tensed her legs and leapt up

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 to see

structure in the distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

the pyramid was, but

was a

scaled

a device used by demons to convert the mana

into the distance, Amanda knew one thing for sure; the mana compressor in the

was able

"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 was simply impossible for it

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

be far bigger than anything I've seen

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

"...How did this happen?"

so abruptly that she had no idea how

idea of where she

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

me, I supported my body

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

"Is this moss?"

texture of the lump on my hand, I brought

"It smells like it…"

knew

moss on the ground, I

It was dark.

around, I 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 out how big

the corner of the room,

and twelve steps

big nor too small. Just about the size of half

'I'm thirsty.'

area where the liquid was dripping. The closer

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a

now, I had been here over a day and was

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

'Wait.'