On the Seven Towers

No matter how long the journey is, there will be a time to reach the end. Queen Laura couldn't tell whether she hoped that this moment would come earlier or later. After all, when she reaches the end, she will have to face a certain result, whether she likes it or not.

There was a knocking sound in the carriage, and Salmeron removed the soundproofing array on the carriage. The voice of the guard came from outside: "Your Majesty, Master Salmeron, we are here."

Laura opened the curtains again and looked out. Her carriage had stopped in a wide open space. At this point, the treetops above her head were not so dense. The sunlight penetrated through the pores in the leaves, forming mottled light and shadows on the ground. A beam of light also shone on the window of the queen's carriage, illuminating half of her face. These rays of light that passed through the dense forest somehow made her feel a little more relaxed.

The guard opened the door for Queen Laura, and Salmeron jumped out of the car first, then helped the queen down.

Laura found that the parking lot extended to a wide staircase. After going up a dozen steps, there was a doorway composed of three oval boulders, one horizontal and two vertical. The doorway was tall and narrow, and behind it seemed to be a lush green.

At this time, another middle-aged priest came out of the doorway and stood on the steps and looked at them quietly.

Queen Laura thought he would come down to greet them, but the priest looked at them without saying a word.

"Your Majesty, it seems that we have to go up by ourselves." Salmeron said.

"It doesn't matter. I know what it's like to ask for help." Laura said softly.

She was wearing a tight swordsman's suit today, with a long sword on her waist. She was slender and beautiful, and had a youthful vitality. The queen refused the help of the maid and walked up the stairs first. Salmeron and seven or eight warriors and mages followed him up.

The middle-aged priest's eyes fell on her, watching her walk up the stairs step by step and come to him. He finally spoke: "Your Majesty Laura, I'm glad you can come on time. I am Felix, the chief priest of this punishment hall."

"Priest Felix, thank you for arranging this meeting for me." Queen Laura said.

"You don't need to thank me. It was the Golden Branch Priest himself who became interested in you, or the recent changes in the kingdom." Felix smiled and said, "Your Majesty, please come with me to rest first. I will inform the Golden Branch Priest."

"Please lead the way." Queen Laura said.

Priest Felix turned and walked into the huge doorway behind him. Queen Laura followed him, but there was a cry of surprise behind him. She turned her head and found that many vines had grown in the cracks of the stone at some point, entangled the hands and feet of her subordinates, including Salmeron Melon. Everyone was tied up with seven or eight vines and was imprisoned in their current position and could not move.

Queen Laura was shocked and angry. She stretched out her hand to hold the hilt of the sword at her waist and shouted, "Priest Felix, what's going on? Why are you attacking my subordinates?"

Felix said, "This is not an attack, it's just a test. Not everyone can see the saint. You are the guest of the saint, but these people are not. If they want to have the opportunity to enter this door with you, they must show enough strength."

Queen Laura bit her lip, her chest heaving with anger. She knew in her heart that the other party's attitude must be intentional. Maybe it was to teach her a lesson first, so that she could learn how to keep a low profile in front of the Temple of Nature, or it was also a test to see how she would deal with this matter and to what extent she would compromise.

Queen Laura drew out her long sword and stared at Priest Felix. The other party raised his eyebrows and asked, "What is your majesty doing? Are you not going to go in with me? Or are you going to fight with me?"

"I won't give up on them just like that." Laura said, she turned around and used her fighting spirit to chop the vines on Salmeron's body. Felix said nothing about her actions, but just watched her fight with the vine quietly.

"Your Majesty, please leave me alone. I can break free from this vine by myself. Please believe me." Salmeron said. After he said this, the fighting spirit on his body began to boil around his body, and the vines made crackling sounds in his fighting spirit, which was a sign that they were burned by the fighting spirit energy.

"Then I will help others!" Queen Laura took two steps and rushed towards another guard mage. The long sword in her hand chopped the vine, but it did not cut the vine, and only cut into less than one-third of the depth.

This guard mage is also a great magician, but his level is quite different from Felix. While struggling to attack the vine with magic, he said, "Your Majesty, this is not an ordinary vine. It is a vine blessed by the Temple of Nature and released by a great magician like Felix. It is too difficult to cut it with your current strength. Please let us find a way to get rid of this bondage. Just wait patiently for us."

"No, I cut it in!" Laura said, "As a monarch, I should not retreat at this time!"

Laura's realm is limited, but the long sword in her hand is the holy-level long sword "Broken Light". Although she can't exert the true power of this long sword at all, the sharpness of the long sword itself has helped her a lot. She used her luck and fighting spirit to cut several times, and finally cut off a vine. Queen Laura made up her mind, took out a bottle of potion from the storage ring, and poured it into her mouth.

"Your Majesty, what did you drink?" Salmeron said nervously. He looked at the bottle carefully for a few times and shouted loudly: "Is it the essence of crazy blood? Stop! Stop quickly! This potion that stimulates potential is very harmful to the mind and body! And it will put the consciousness on the edge of losing control. Only berserkers with particularly strong bodies will use it. You can't drink this potion!"

Queen Laura ignored the shouting of her subordinates, drank the potion, and used her fighting spirit to spread it to various parts of her body. Suddenly, she felt a violent power poured into her body. She even felt that a violent meaning was also instilled in her spirit. She now has an impulse to fight, but fortunately, with the blessing of various magic props on her body, she still basically maintains her sanity.

Laura raised the holy sword with both hands again, and used the power added to her body to slash at the vines fiercely.

This time, the vines that trapped the mage were cut off by her sword. The overflowing sword energy even cut through the mage's body, but in this way, the mage was completely liberated.

Laura did the same thing, slashing at the vines on other people's bodies with her sword again and again.