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…"

eyes opened wide in surprise as she read the measurements displayed on the machine. Her excitement soon reached an

really

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

were the same as back when earth was in its infancy stages,

was filled with

"Shit."

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

was still excited about her

data for her research, it was

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long.

might be on 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 she

quietly minding her own business in her lab when suddenly, out

what was

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

kilometers away from Melissa, in

"What's that?"

thick canopy of trees and glanced to the distance where

of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling

into the sky

the sky darkened and the sky turned

"This phenomenon..."

legs and leapt up

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

the structure in the distance, Amanda quietly mumbled

"A mana compressor."

was, but now that she could

a

large scaled mana

by demons to convert the mana in the

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

she was able to figure something

"I'm not on earth."

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

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

look to be far bigger than anything

her attention was once again drawn toward the pyramid

"...How did this happen?"

happened so abruptly that she had no idea how

the moment, she was only here to get an idea of where she was. Little did she think

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

me, I supported my

wall. I ripped whatever it was from the wall

"Is this moss?"

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

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss smelled

the moss on the ground, I turned

It was dark.

saw

"Huuuu..."

breath, I placed both hands on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a sideways motion. At

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

steps vertical, and twelve steps

big nor too small. Just about

'I'm thirsty.'

moved toward the area where the liquid was

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a

of now, I had been here over a day and

more, I extended my hand in the direction of

'Wait.'