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!

her Avatar and actually used its powers to battle

the plant-version of

the arm-wrestling match and switched

roots became vastly more powerful as nearly all her

severed an ocean's worth

and they all

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

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

of them owned 50%

now, Meadow's territory was too large. Since she covered a bigger territory now, she also had to control more roots. This

and extended his roots further into Meadow's territory, which required her to

raged on for over an

friends had joined him in

in excitement as he saw Meadow, greeting

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

mind

was only happy that Meadow

Ferris liked Meadow.

looked at the war

hegemon in her eyes, and

of the Dead World. If Meadow reached the Star God

how powerful Meadow

was shocked that Narcissus was even

she knew that he was powerful, but she had always believed Meadow to be more

didn't even have a fighting chance

with her

comparison, Narcissus didn't even use his

essentially fighting with only

of Energy soon?" Narcissus asked Meadow in a bored

Meadow countered

not," Narcissus answered. "I haven't even used

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

had lost. Now, she only wanted

like the person sitting in her seat was

"Fine," Narcissus answered.

SHING!

shone in a gentle light, and one could feel

Major Law of Life!"

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

even

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

million rats were jumping on a single

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

explosions,

the roots encircled Meadow's

Meadow had lost.

all, he wasn't

Meanwhile, Azure sighed.

would be so excited for Meadow," Azure

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