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!

and actually used its

no longer the plant-version of arm-wrestling but

arm-wrestling match

vastly more powerful as nearly all her Laws became a

roots severed an ocean's worth of Narcissus'

replaced them, and they all attacked

were

mortal humans fighting a gigantic monster. The humans couldn't win

occurred when both of

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

these weaknesses and extended his roots further into Meadow's territory,

battle raged on for

Gravis' friends had joined him

he saw Meadow,

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

didn't mind

was only happy

Ferris liked Meadow.

looked at the war

had always been an incredibly powerful hegemon in her eyes, and her

If Meadow reached the

showed how powerful

Azure was shocked that Narcissus was even

he was powerful,

even have a fighting chance against

already fighting with her full

Narcissus didn't even use his

fighting with only

out of Energy soon?" Narcissus asked Meadow in a

you?" Meadow countered with an

answered. "I

accept that you're

Now, she only wanted to

seemed like the person sitting in her seat was too fat for her to push

"Fine," Narcissus answered.

SHING!

It shone in a gentle light, and one

Law of Life!" Meadow said with

of roots increased by ten times, and he shot

didn't even

army of roots, absorbing

like a million rats

amount of Life Energy, and with the Major Law of Life, that advantage

a wave of explosions, but the roots just kept

end, the roots encircled Meadow's

Meadow had lost.

what would happen. After all, he wasn't very

Meanwhile, Azure sighed.

would be so

aback