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

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

conceded the arm-wrestling match and switched over to

nearly all her

roots severed an ocean's worth of

quickly replaced them, and they

vastly more powerful, but Narcissus' roots were more numerous,

fighting a gigantic monster. The humans couldn't win individually, but with their teamwork

when both of them owned 50% of the

territory was too large. Since she covered a bigger territory now, she also had to control more roots. This weakened her

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

on for over an

had joined him in

shouted in excitement as he saw

busy!" Meadow shouted back when

didn't mind Meadow's

only happy that Meadow

Ferris liked Meadow.

at the

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

the Major Law of the Dead World. If Meadow reached the Star God

how powerful Meadow

was shocked that Narcissus was

of Narcissus, and she knew that he was powerful,

Meadow didn't even have a fighting chance against

was already fighting with her full power, including

comparison, Narcissus didn't even use his

was essentially fighting with only one

Narcissus asked Meadow in

Meadow countered with

answered. "I haven't even used

your control is superior to mine, but I won't accept that you're so

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

like the person sitting in her seat was too

"Fine," Narcissus answered.

SHING!

light, and one could feel

Life!" Meadow

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

didn't even

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

like a million rats were jumping on a single

Life Energy, and with the Major Law of Life,

explosions, but the

the end, the roots

Meadow had lost.

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

Meanwhile, Azure sighed.

here, she would be so

taken aback by Azure's