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…"

as she read the measurements displayed on

I'm really on a

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

were the same as back when earth was in its infancy

place was filled with enormous bugs,

"Shit."

Melissa cringe. If there was one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly finding bugs that were the size of whales,

then, putting that aside, Melissa was still excited about

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

"Wait a second..."

last long. Her eyebrows knitted

a different planet, but how exactly am I

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

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

was

"Hmm…"

faded as reality dawned on her. She pinched the middle of her brows in

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

***

Melissa, in a different

"What's that?"

glanced to the distance where she saw a

felt a sense of

purple light also shot into the sky as she stared at

the clouds in the sky darkened and the sky

"This phenomenon..."

leapt up as

of another branch, she eventually reached the top of

in the distance, Amanda quietly

"A mana compressor."

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

a

large scaled mana

to convert the mana in the air into

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

was able

"I'm not on earth."

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

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

plants look to be far bigger than anything I've seen

snap out of her thoughts as her attention

"...How did this happen?"

so abruptly that she had no idea how she

to get an idea of where she was. Little

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

me, I supported my body as

wall. I ripped

"Is this moss?"

feel the texture of the lump on my hand, I brought

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss smelled

ground, I

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

my foot touched the corner of the room, I could approximate

steps vertical, and

small. Just about the size of half a basketball

'I'm thirsty.'

area where the liquid

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful

been here over a day and was extremely

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

'Wait.'