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

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

had conceded the arm-wrestling match and switched over

all her Laws became a

severed an ocean's worth of

replaced them, and they all attacked

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

humans couldn't win individually, but with their

both of them owned 50% of the

Meadow's territory was too large. Since she covered a bigger territory now, she also

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

on for

Gravis' friends had joined him in

as he saw Meadow,

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

didn't mind Meadow's

was only happy that

Ferris liked Meadow.

at the war

powerful hegemon in her eyes, and her power

knew the Major Law of the Dead World. If Meadow reached the Star God Realm, Azure wouldn't be able

showed how powerful

that

and she knew that he was powerful,

didn't even have a fighting chance against

her full

Narcissus didn't even use his

essentially fighting with only one

of Energy soon?" Narcissus asked Meadow

countered with an

Narcissus answered. "I haven't even used my

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

had lost. Now,

person sitting in her seat was too

"Fine," Narcissus answered.

SHING!

gentle light, and one could feel a boundless force of

Law of Life!"

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

didn't even

out an army of roots, absorbing their

million rats were

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

of explosions, but

the roots encircled Meadow's

Meadow had lost.

happen. After all, he

Meanwhile, Azure sighed.

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

was taken aback by