Chapter 8: Ashes of a rival
With Root Webs, everything changed.
I was still blind, I was still just a plant with no eyes but with Root Webs, I could almost ignore the fact that I am actually blind.
This is because all of a sudden, I could see more, feel more, so vividly and across a wider radius that it felt like I had eyes once again. But it was different from having eyes, vastly different.
Whereas with eyes you can see, differentiating colors through light, with my Root Webs, you feel. All the vibrations, movements in my territory, I detected them all, so clearly that a vivid image was created in my mind.
My territory was indeed small; mostly filled with plants just like me but weaker and smaller, and some weed at the edge of my territory.
All the plants were submissive. The only one not submissive was the encroaching entity.
I could feel so much now but most importantly, I could feel it.
Like a low hum through the soil, I could feel it; my rival still breathing, still there. After all the pain it caused me, it had the audacity to linger.
It should've crawled back to where it came from, limping and humiliated. But it stayed.
'And there, bastard, is your mistake!'
DING!