The surrounding vegetation grew increasingly lush, with grass gradually covering Viktor's waist and surrounding everyone.

Huge flower buds emerged from the sea of flowers, suddenly blooming in the air.

"This is..."

"[Samsara Fragrance]."

Viktor named this field for everyone present.

Just like the Fire Calamity Guledon's ability.

Druja also possessed the power to alter terrain.

At this moment, Druja's three pairs of eyes stared intently at Viktor for a while.

It sensed a familiar aura from Viktor.

But its kin looked... very weak.

So weak that it seemed unable to withstand even a normal strike from itself.

Viktor was also unwilling to show anything to it, his hands gradually beginning to construct a complex fourth-tier formation.

The four-layered formation gradually converged in his single hand, the patterns once again overlapping after a long time.

Soon, the empty four-layered rings were inscribed with countless runes and intricate patterns.

Streams of golden light slowly rose from beneath Viktor's feet.

Attack, defense, magic power, agility...

Numerous buffs began to stack continuously on Viktor's status bar.

Feeling many warm powers gradually spreading throughout his body, Viktor stared at the Wood Calamity before him and smiled faintly.

Vega stood on his shoulder, seeming relaxed as well.

After all, having fought alongside Viktor so many times, it was no longer as panicked as when it first encountered a Calamity with Viktor.

Instead, it was extremely excited.

"Viktor! Crush it for me!"

As for why Vega wanted to beat up Druja so badly.

It was because the Wood Calamity was what Vega had helped Viktor resurrect.

The surrounding magical and natural forces intertwined, becoming very chaotic.

In this environment, Viktor naturally found it difficult to locate Druja's core essence in a short time.

So Vega flew to the crown of Halgal, using its eyes to probe for magical vulnerabilities in Halgal.

Through the connection with Vega, Viktor was able to use the power of the Fire Calamity to resurrect the slumbering Druja.

This Calamity, imprisoned within Halgal by the Grand Mage and used as an endless source of magical power, was awakened once again.

Finally, it seemed to come to its senses, realizing how long it had been imprisoned.

A roar of anger echoed throughout the bottom of Endymion.

Haim's eyes widened; he couldn't believe what Viktor had unsealed.

The pressure created by just the roar of the giant beast before him was enough to make his whole body tremble.

At this moment, he couldn't even seek external help.

Hundreds of phantoms identical to Haim were spread around the barrier, using all of his magic to support this defensive shield.

All he could do now was try his best to ensure that the power of this terrifying calamity beast would not leak into Endymion.

Cocotte's condition wasn't much better either.

She almost fell off her cloud, kneeling on it with her heart pounding like a drum.

If it were other Calamities, Cocotte wouldn't have reacted so strongly.

But the Calamity before her was the embodiment of wood energy.

Most of Cocotte's powerful nature magic was wood-based; if this Calamity became slightly displeased, she wouldn't even be able to construct magic.

She sat on the cloud, on the verge of tears, murmuring.

"I believe it, brother, I really believe it now."

Viktor hadn't lied to her.

He really had fought with Calamities before.

The battle was about to begin.

A health bar gradually lit up before Viktor's eyes, seemingly endless at first glance.

Above the start of the health bar appeared the Wood Calamity's level.

Level 55!

It was a full five levels higher than the previous Guledon.

After all, Guledon had been in a dormant state before, and even when awakened, its strength hadn't fully recovered.

But Druja was different.

Having been beneath Endymion all this time, even though it had just awakened, under the magical influence of Endymion, it was more powerful than the freshly awakened Guledon.

But unfortunately!

Viktor faced the powerful Calamity before him.

In the game's storyline, this Calamity's first appearance was after the Dark Archmage attacked the bottom of Halgal.

As Endymion was about to fall, Druja revived.

Upon revival, it used endless vines to re-anchor Endymion in the sky.

All seven layers of Endymion were invaded by Druja's vines.

Thus, Endymion became a long-term dungeon for a period of time.

After the Dark Archmage's death, players could challenge the first to seventh layers of Endymion daily.

The endless dense strange plants were the players' challenge targets.

Each layer had a boss waiting for players to challenge, until the seventh layer was completed.

At that time, players could proceed to the 0th layer, which was Halgal's location.

To challenge the full-fledged level 60 world boss, Druja.

In other words, in Viktor's eyes.

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This newly revived Druja.

Was not as strong as the one he had challenged countless times before!

Suddenly, countless tree roots and vines continuously burrowed into the ground, then burst out again, lunging towards Viktor as if in a frenzy.

Those huge flower buds also instantly released dense pollen, continuously weakening Viktor's long-lasting buffs.

Indeed, the Wood Calamity's environmental tendency led to its unique difficulty.

Under Druja's environment, not only would wood-based magic be greatly amplified, but the duration of players' buff enhancements would also be reduced by half.

Because of this extremely unfair debuff, many players were so annoyed that they went to the game forums to vent their frustrations.

Unfortunately, the boss's difficulty would not be modified.

This instead aroused the fighting spirit of a group of high-end players, who constantly tried various skill combinations and team compositions before finally defeating this green giant for the first time.

As luck would have it, Viktor was one of those high-end players.

And now, he didn't need any team.

He himself was already an army!

Viktor merely glanced at the Wood Calamity's offensive, and the two iron plates at his waist flew out accordingly.

Those two iron plates instantly transformed into a myriad of blades, like countless attacking soldiers launching an assault on the giant enemy before them.

Turning into a storm of flying feathers, they swept around Druja.

Its nine pairs of giant hands on its head constantly swatted at the mosquito-like blades surrounding it, but each time they would be quickly dodged by the seemingly conscious iron plates, exposing its vulnerabilities.

Under Viktor's fierce assault with hundreds of flying cards, every inch of Druja's weak points was thoroughly attended to.

Soon, a slight gap appeared in its health bar.

Intense pain suddenly struck its enormous body, and a mighty roar shook the surrounding flowers and giant trees.

Druja's three pairs of compound eyes suddenly lit up with a powerful green light, the radiance gradually spreading towards its wounds.

Those wounds healed visibly, and the small gap in the health bar that had fallen also showed some recovery, now the lost sliver of Druja's health was no longer visible.

This was the Wood Calamity's second annoying trait: every 3 minutes, Druja would recover 5% of its lost health.

With its already robust health bar, under this skill, the battle would be drawn out endlessly.

And under the environmental influence, the seemingly endless battle made countless players give up challenging it.

Viktor's expression remained unchanged; this situation was well within his expectations.

Since it needed to recover, Viktor took advantage of this recovery time to continue outputting damage on its weak points.

Druja stopped recovering and instead thrust its nine pairs of luminous green hands into the void, violently tearing open a huge green rift.

"Here it comes."

As Viktor's words fell, countless magical beasts suddenly poured out from the four huge rifts.

Flower spirits and tree demons began to flood into this space, followed by endless bizarre magical beasts.

For example... hyenas with their eyes replaced by flowers, leeches with tails seemingly carrying red fruits...

Countless magical beasts surged towards Viktor.

Viktor distributed hundreds of flying cards around Druja to continue whittling down its health, while he slowly raised the black magic staff - Urulust.

He placed the staff in front of him, slowly infusing it with magic.

The intricate runes on the staff body slowly flickered with red light, and soon, the red orb also began to glow.

[Fourth-tier Magic: Phoenix]

A huge formation was constructed in mid-air in front of Viktor, with scorching heat already emanating from it at the formation stage.

Soon, the formation kept rotating, and the center of the magic array gradually revealed a phoenix head.

With a long cry towards the void, it suddenly emerged from the formation with its entire gigantic body.

The huge fiery phoenix swooped towards the countless magical beasts above.

The common magical beasts perished in an instant as the phoenix passed over them.

Only those bizarre-looking magical beasts, with their tenacious vitality, endured the flames and slowly approached Viktor.

With Viktor's increased magic chanting speed, he quickly constructed a new spell again.

[Fourth-tier Magic: Returning Flame]

The formation was instantly completed, with several magic arrays slowly appearing in the air, and a completely revolving flame, like a spiral blade, pierced into the magical beasts' bodies.

The flying leeches, struck by the penetrating attack, fell towards the ground, their red fruits suddenly swelling.

Viktor jumped backward, knowing what would happen next.

In just a few seconds, countless red fruits exploded in the air, with phoenixes formed from the fierce flames weaving through the endless explosions, continuing to wear down the cannon fodder-like magical beasts.

Viktor watched the bomb-like explosions constantly detonating in the air like fireworks, put down the magic staff in his hand, and retrieved the hundreds of flying cards.

Those magical beasts were eliminated by Viktor in an instant, and now, Druja, seeing Viktor unscathed, roared again in anger.

Its three green giant hands reached out to grab Viktor.

This time, Viktor didn't dodge, a glint of cunning flashing in his eyes, allowing Druja's attack to strike him directly.

Feeling the approaching crisis, Druja was now unable to withdraw its attack, and intense pressure suddenly appeared on Viktor.

In just an instant, the powerful air pressure violently burst.

However, this time it wasn't Viktor who was attacked, but the Wood Calamity.

Due to the effect of the Mage's Robe, the shield produced by Viktor caused severe damage to Druja.

Viktor seized the Wood Calamity's stun time, sending hundreds of flying cards shooting towards the Calamity's chest.

In an instant, they easily broke through Druja's multiple defenses.

Blood spurted from Druja's body!

This was Druja's first real injury!

Haim stood stunned, unable to comprehend how Viktor had the strength to engage with such a god-like being.

And... even had some advantage?

But soon, a luminous green color coated Druja's body.

The wounds it had just received, in the blink of an eye, recovered to an almost complete state.

This terrifying recovery ability left both Haim and Cocotte dumbfounded.

"This kind of being..."

"Is it really... possible to defeat?"

...

The surroundings fell silent.

After everyone had left, only Aurelian remained in the Mage Council.

Unlike the room she had imagined, at first, she thought the Mage Council would be some luxurious place.

Like a palace, piled with gold and silver bricks, a symbol of the mages' nobility.

However, it wasn't.

The surrounding walls, which seemed almost alive, made her feel her sanity was under attack just by glancing at them, and she dared not look again.

"Teacher will be back soon, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid."

As she spoke, a "whimper" sound came from behind her, startling Aurelian.

To be honest, she was a bit timid.

If she hadn't known Viktor was there before, she wouldn't have dared to fight with such monsters.

"Uh... Teacher."

Aurelian wanted to close her eyes in fear, but as she slightly raised her head.

Suddenly, something appeared in front of her.

A strange door appeared before her.

The strange door slowly opened, as if attracting Aurelian to enter.

She felt something was amiss and shook her head vigorously to clear her mind.

"No, I should stay here."

"I absolutely shouldn't cause trouble for Teacher."

But the door's temptation made her feel very safe on the other side.

She resisted the temptation and closed her eyes, trying not to think about it.

But the moment she closed her eyes.

The surrounding scene changed like a meteor shower.

Even Aurelian herself didn't notice.

Soon, a faint ringing sound came from beside her ear.

Hearing this sound, she opened her eyes in a daze and stood stunned.

A library-like place appeared before her.

This library-like place was very strange, like a spherical space, with stairs and bookshelves chaotically twisted and distributed on the surface of the sphere.

Bookshelves and stairs were scattered between, like a suspended maze.

Looking up, the scenery on the ceiling was the same as the bookshelves she had just seen, only it seemed to have been inverted.

As if forcibly distorted, various psychedelic books were deliberately crammed into this spherical space.

Some open books floated in the air, filled with runes that Aurelian couldn't understand.

"Where... is this?"

Aurelian couldn't understand why she was here when she had been standing still...

Suddenly, a memory forcibly poured into her mind, causing her head to ache as she looked at this magical place before her.

A word suddenly appeared in her memory.

Aurelian murmured it out loud.

"Magic... Library?"