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…"

wide in surprise as she read the measurements

really on a different

exygen was around 78% to 21%. On rare occasions would it differ, but it was only by a small percentage.

were the same as back when earth

place was filled with enormous

"Shit."

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

aside, Melissa was

shes could collect data for her research, it was none other than this

"Wait a second..."

didn't last long.

planet, but how exactly am I supposed to go back

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

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

was

"Hmm…"

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

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

***

from Melissa, in a

"What's that?"

peered through the thick canopy of trees and glanced to the distance where

she felt a sense of existential doom. There was this suffocating feeling rising from the pyramid in the

a bright purple light also shot into the sky as

clouds in the sky

"This phenomenon..."

Amanda tensed her legs and leapt

once again leaped toward the top of another branch, she eventually reached the top of the tree and was then able to see the pyramid

structure in the distance, Amanda

"A mana compressor."

quite sure what the pyramid was, but now that she could see it

a mana

scaled

demons to convert the mana in the

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

was able

"I'm not on earth."

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

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

to be far bigger than

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

"...How did this happen?"

no idea how she

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

...At least until now.

***

"I can finally move."

rocky wall beside me, I supported my body as I stumbled

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?"

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

"It smells like it…"

I knew how moss smelled

ground, I turned my attention to

It was dark.

around, I saw

"Huuuu..."

hands on the wall and slowly began to move my legs in a

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

steps vertical, and twelve

small. Just about the size of half

'I'm thirsty.'

toward the area where the liquid was dripping. The closer

Drip— Drip—

Gulp.

a mouthful of

of now, I had been here over a day and

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

'Wait.'