Lightning Is the Only Way

The battle was violent. The roots constantly clashed at each other, and they were continually severed. When one root was severed, the opponent absorbed the root to gain more Life Energy, which would result in the production of even more roots.

Meadow's domain slowly extended, pushing Narcissus back.

After a couple of minutes of violent fighting, 50% of the underground now belonged to Meadow.

"Get off my seat!" Meadow transmitted aggressively. "That's mine!"

However, Narcissus' answer was different from what Meadow had expected.

"Alright, we can have a fair battle now," Narcissus answered.

And then, Narcissus actually began trying.

As soon as Narcissus got serious, Meadow felt herself be overwhelmed.

They were both only fighting with some basic Laws, which made their Laws about equal. They were also only fighting with their Realms, physical power, and concentration.

This was not a battle to the death but a battle for supremacy.

One could see this as the equivalent of arm-wrestling for plants. A human could simply get their other hand and punch the opponent in the face, but that would feel like a loss to the person punching.

They would feel like they had lost in a battle of honor.

Meadow was overwhelmed with all the roots of her opponent.

Her opponent was using his roots with absolutely unreal finesse. It was like every single root was its own living being, which had gone through thousands of temperings on their path to power.

In just a minute, Meadow's territory was reduced to 20% of its previous size.

"Do you have any idea with how many other plants I have battled in my life?" Narcissus asked. "I lived in a thick forest filled with powerful plants, and the plants were even more numerous than all the beasts in the world."

"In comparison, I can tell that you've had it easy," Narcissus added. "You probably haven't fought many plants in your life. Your control over your roots is subpar and simple."

Meadow immediately became frustrated when she heard Narcissus' words.

However, Narcissus was right.

Meadow had spent a lot of her time in Styr's Tribe, and there hadn't been many relevant plants in there. Then, when Styr and the others had left, Meadow had already become one of the most powerful beings in the higher world, making all forms of war with other plants meaningless.

In short, Meadow was very inexperienced when it came to plant warfare.

Meanwhile, Narcissus had become truly powerful amongst a dense forest.

He was the strongest plant in the strongest higher world.

Meadow couldn't fight Narcissus on his own terms.

"Go on," Narcissus said. "You can unleash your actual Laws. I don't mind."

Meadow snorted.

BOOOM!

summoned her Avatar and actually used its

longer the plant-version of

had conceded the arm-wrestling match

became vastly more powerful as nearly all her

roots severed an ocean's worth

replaced them, and they

powerful, but Narcissus' roots were more numerous,

fighting a gigantic monster. The humans couldn't win individually, but with their teamwork and tactics, they managed to bring down the

occurred when both of them

too large. Since she covered a bigger territory now, she also had to control

his roots further into Meadow's territory, which required her to use a ton of Energy to quickly take care

battle raged on for

Gravis' friends had

immediately shouted in excitement as he saw Meadow, greeting

busy!" Meadow shouted back when

mind Meadow's

only happy that

Ferris liked Meadow.

looked at the war

hegemon in her

Law of the Dead World. If Meadow reached the

showed how

that Narcissus was

of Narcissus, and she knew that he was powerful, but

Meadow didn't even have a fighting chance

her full power,

Narcissus didn't

was essentially fighting with only

of Energy soon?" Narcissus asked Meadow

you?" Meadow countered with an exhausted

Narcissus answered. "I haven't

but I won't accept that you're so superior to me that you don't even need to use your Avatar to win!" Meadow

Now, she only

seat

"Fine," Narcissus answered.

SHING!

It shone in a gentle light, and

of Life!" Meadow said with

of roots increased by ten times, and

didn't even control

absorbing their Life Energy, but the enemy roots

was like a million rats were

had an incredible amount of Life Energy, and with the

a wave of explosions, but the

end, the roots encircled Meadow's core

Meadow had lost.

all, he wasn't very experienced in the

Meanwhile, Azure sighed.

here, she would be so excited for

taken aback