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…"

opened wide in surprise as she read the measurements

really on a

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

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

was filled with enormous bugs, and

"Shit."

Melissa cringe. If there was one thing she despised the most, it was bugs...and the idea of possibly

that aside, Melissa was still

could collect data for her research, it was none

"Wait a second..."

last long. Her

might be on a different planet, but how exactly am I supposed

fact, she was extremely confused as to why she suddenly appeared here

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

was

"Hmm…"

as reality dawned on her. She pinched the middle of her

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

canopy of trees and glanced to the distance where

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

the sky as she

the clouds in the sky darkened and the sky

"This phenomenon..."

legs and leapt up

toward the top of another

in the distance, Amanda

"A mana compressor."

was, but

a mana

scaled mana

convert the mana in the

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

on she was able to

"I'm not on earth."

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

the unfamiliar environment, as Amanda marvelled at the various plants and vegetation that she had

be

quick to snap out of her thoughts as her attention was once again drawn toward

"...How did this happen?"

she had no idea how she found herself in

was only here to get an idea of where she was. Little did

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

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

of the wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall and brought it closer

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

knew how

dropped the moss on the ground, I

It was dark.

saw

"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

nor too small. Just about the

'I'm thirsty.'

I moved toward the area where the liquid

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

swallowed a mouthful

here over a day and was

I extended my hand in

'Wait.'