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 its powers to

no longer the plant-version of arm-wrestling

conceded the arm-wrestling match and switched over to

more powerful as nearly all her Laws became a

Meadow's roots severed an

quickly replaced them, and they all attacked

more powerful, but Narcissus' roots were more

humans fighting a gigantic monster. The humans couldn't win individually, but with their teamwork and tactics, they managed to bring down the

stalemate occurred when both of them

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

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

on

now, Gravis' friends had joined him in

as he saw Meadow, greeting her with

I'm busy!" Meadow shouted back when

mind Meadow's

happy

Ferris liked Meadow.

Azure looked at the war

always been an incredibly powerful hegemon in

of the Dead World. If Meadow reached the Star God

showed how powerful

Azure was shocked that

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

Meadow didn't even have

her full power, including

comparison, Narcissus didn't even use his

was essentially fighting with

soon?" Narcissus asked Meadow

countered with an

"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 even need to use your Avatar to win!"

she had lost. Now,

in her seat was too fat for her to push

"Fine," Narcissus answered.

SHING!

Avatar appeared. It shone in a gentle light, and one could feel a boundless force of

Major Law of Life!" Meadow said with

soon as Narcissus summoned his Avatar, the number of roots increased by ten times, and he shot all of them forward in one

even

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

like a million rats were jumping on a single

the Major Law of Life, that

unleashed a wave of explosions,

the end, the roots encircled

Meadow had lost.

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

Meanwhile, Azure sighed.

would be so excited for Meadow,"

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