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 used its powers

already no longer the plant-version of arm-wrestling but a

match and switched over to

roots became vastly more powerful as nearly all her

Meadow's roots severed an ocean's

new roots quickly replaced them, and they all

Narcissus' roots were more numerous, and they were moving with incredible

humans couldn't win individually, but with their teamwork and tactics, they managed to

stalemate occurred when both of them owned 50% of

bigger territory now, she also had to control more roots. This weakened her offensive, exposing plenty of

further into Meadow's territory, which required her to

on for over

now, Gravis' friends had

immediately shouted in excitement as he saw Meadow, greeting her with

own barf, mutt! I'm busy!" Meadow

mind Meadow's

happy

Ferris liked Meadow.

looked at the war

been an incredibly powerful hegemon in

Dead World. If

how

shocked that Narcissus was

heard of Narcissus, and she knew that he was

have a fighting chance against

fighting with her full

comparison, Narcissus didn't even use his

was essentially fighting with only

out of Energy soon?" Narcissus asked Meadow in a

you?" Meadow countered with an exhausted

course not," Narcissus answered. "I haven't

mine, but I won't accept that you're so

knew that she had lost. Now, she only wanted to lose with

the person sitting in her seat was too fat for

"Fine," Narcissus answered.

SHING!

shone in a gentle light, and

Major Law of Life!" Meadow said with

soon as Narcissus summoned his Avatar, the number of roots increased by ten times, and he shot all

didn't even

absorbing their Life

rats

of Life Energy, and with the Major Law

unleashed a wave of explosions, but the roots just

the end, the roots encircled Meadow's

Meadow had lost.

all, he wasn't very experienced

Meanwhile, Azure sighed.

still here, she would be so excited for Meadow,"

taken aback by