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!

Avatar and actually

was already no longer the plant-version of

match

more powerful as nearly all her

severed an ocean's worth of

roots quickly replaced them, and

more powerful, but Narcissus' roots were more numerous, and they were moving

be a group of mortal humans fighting a gigantic monster. The humans couldn't win individually, but with their teamwork and tactics,

both of them

large. Since she covered a bigger territory now, she also had to control more roots. This weakened her offensive, exposing plenty of weaknesses in her

these weaknesses and extended his roots further into Meadow's territory, which required her to use a ton of Energy

on for

friends had

in excitement as he

eat your own barf, mutt! I'm busy!" Meadow shouted back when Ferris greeted

mind

only happy that Meadow was

Ferris liked Meadow.

at the war with

in her eyes, and her

Meadow even knew the Major Law of the Dead World. If

how powerful

was shocked that Narcissus was

she knew that he was powerful, but she had always

didn't even have a

was already fighting with her full

Narcissus didn't even use

fighting

out of Energy soon?" Narcissus asked

Meadow countered

Narcissus answered. "I haven't even used

I won't accept that you're so superior to me that you don't even need

that she had lost. Now, she only

seat was too fat for her to push

"Fine," Narcissus answered.

SHING!

Avatar appeared. It shone in a gentle light, and one could feel a boundless force

Life!" Meadow said with

soon as Narcissus summoned his Avatar, the number of roots increased by ten

even control

roots took out an army of roots, absorbing their Life Energy, but the enemy

million rats were

with the

of explosions, but

the roots encircled Meadow's core and

Meadow had lost.

all, he wasn't very

Meanwhile, Azure sighed.

here, she would be so

aback