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!

and actually used its

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

arm-wrestling match and switched

more powerful as nearly all

an instant, Meadow's roots severed an ocean's worth of

quickly replaced them, and they all

Narcissus' roots were more numerous, and

group of mortal humans fighting a gigantic monster. The humans couldn't

of them owned 50%

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

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

battle raged on

Gravis' friends had joined

he saw

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

didn't mind

was only happy

Ferris liked Meadow.

Azure looked at the war with

incredibly powerful hegemon in her eyes, and her power obviously

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

showed how

shocked that

Narcissus, and she knew that he was powerful, but she had

Meadow didn't even have a fighting chance

with her full power, including

didn't even use

essentially fighting with

out of Energy soon?" Narcissus asked Meadow in a bored

countered with an

Narcissus answered. "I haven't even used

I won't accept that you're so superior to me

had lost. Now, she only

seemed like the person sitting in her seat was too fat for her to push

"Fine," Narcissus answered.

SHING!

light, and one could

Law of Life!"

of roots increased by ten times, and he

even

army of roots, absorbing their Life Energy, but the enemy roots were

was like a million rats were jumping on a

Life Energy, and with the Major Law

of explosions, but the roots

the end, the roots encircled Meadow's core

Meadow had lost.

After all, he wasn't very experienced in

Meanwhile, Azure sighed.

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

was taken aback