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!

actually

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

match and switched over to a

roots became vastly more powerful as nearly all her Laws became a full level more

roots severed an ocean's

quickly replaced them, and they all attacked

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

humans couldn't win individually, but with their

of them owned 50%

Meadow's territory was too large. Since she covered a bigger territory now, she also had to control more roots. This weakened her offensive, exposing plenty of

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

raged on for

Gravis' friends had joined

in excitement as he saw

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

mind

was only happy that

Ferris liked Meadow.

looked at the war

been an incredibly powerful hegemon in her eyes, and

Law of the Dead World. If

showed how powerful

that Narcissus was

knew that he was powerful, but she had always

even have a fighting chance against

already fighting with her full power,

didn't even use

fighting with only one

soon?" Narcissus asked Meadow in a bored

you?" Meadow countered with an

"I haven't even

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

already knew that she had lost. Now, she only

in her seat was too

"Fine," Narcissus answered.

SHING!

green Avatar appeared. It shone in a gentle light, and one could

Law of Life!"

increased by ten times, and

didn't even

army of roots, absorbing their Life Energy,

million rats were jumping on a

Energy, and with the Major Law of Life, that

unleashed a wave of explosions, but the

the end, the roots encircled Meadow's core and

Meadow had lost.

wondered what would happen. After all, he wasn't very experienced in the ways of

Meanwhile, Azure sighed.

she would be so excited for

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