Felin Demon Sunflower.
A malformed, twisted lifeform.
Half plant, half creature.
While possessing the mobility and bloodthirsty nature of living creatures.
Just like ordinary plants could grow by absorbing energy, such as sunlight.
Felin Demon Sunflowers also possessed a similar ability, and it was a specialized variant.
It was called—Magic Siphon!
It could drain magical energy within its range, Earth Vein energy, and even the Life Force within living beings!
Thus, it was an extremely vicious species!
Back then, even the mighty Netheril Empire had been driven to distraction by Felin Demon Sunflowers...
The instant she saw those Felin Demon Sunflowers.
A great deal of information immediately surfaced in Mystra's mind.
Some of it was relatively basic information about Felin Demon Sunflowers, while some was related secret intelligence.
For example: why they had encountered the Netheril Empire back then...
At the same time.
Mystra also understood why those Felin Demon Sunflowers had wanted to devour everyone on the battlefield not long ago.
As a spell-like ability that could be unleashed in great quantities and repeatedly stacked.
Once the Felin Demon Sunflowers had truly established a sufficient scale deep underground and formed an array...
Then.
Aside from a very few exceptionally powerful individuals.
Most of those present would probably have been unable to escape disaster.
Even some true gods in Sage Form could have been drained alive into mummified corpses by vast quantities of Magic Siphon!
Therefore.
That move.
Could absolutely have been said to possess the potential to decide victory or defeat!
However.
Things became different once they had been forced out in haste.
On the current battlefield, powerful martial fighters emerged one after another. Felin Demon Sunflowers that had rushed out to join the fray were easily cut down by every passing bystander in Peerless Mowing fashion, utterly incapable