Battlefield Perimeter.
Have you ever seen a dance of death?
The one not of choreography of CGI, the one where real blood flies, where blades flash, their sharp edges leaving reflections of death and doom, the dance where fixed things become broken and broken things become destroyed.
That was what happened in the Forgotten Atlanta Expanse when the Verdant Lord of the Forgotten city retaliated against the Verdant Lord of New Chicago finally at full power.
Not just his own power, but also the power of his allies.
KABOOM!
It was disastrous. It was chaotic.
It was war, it was survival, it was the theory of natural selection.
It was the rawest form of living. It was survival of the fittest.
Only those organisms, only those Awakened, only those Verdant Lords with traits better suited to their environment are more likely to survive, grow stronger, and reproduce, becoming even bigger and all-encompassing.