No matter how long the journey is, there will be a time to reach the end. Queen Laura can't tell whether she hopes this moment will come sooner or later. After all, when she reaches the end, she will have to face some kind of result, whether she likes it or not.
There were knocking sounds in the carriage, and Salmeron removed the soundproofing array from the carriage. The guards' voices came from outside: "Your Majesty, Master Salmeron, we are here."
Laura opened the curtains again and looked out. Her carriage had stopped at a wide open space. The treetops above her head were not so dense here. The sunlight filtered through the gaps in the leaves, forming mottled 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 penetrated the dense forest made her feel a little more relaxed.
The guards opened the door for Queen Laura. Salmeron jumped out of the car first and then helped the queen down.
Laura discovered that the parking space extended out into a wide flight of steps. After going up a dozen steps, there was a doorway made up of three oval boulders, one horizontal and two vertical. The doorway was tall and long, and behind it seemed to be a lush green.
At this time, another middle-aged priest walked out of the doorway, stood on the steps and looked at them quietly.
Queen Laura thought he would come down to greet them, but the priest just looked at them without saying a word.
"Your Majesty, it looks like we have to go up there ourselves," said Salmeron.
"It's okay, I know what it's like to ask for help." Laura said softly.
Today she was wearing a tight swordsman's outfit, with a long sword at her waist. She had a slender figure and a beautiful body, and she had a youthful vitality. The queen refused the help of her maid and walked up the stairs first. Salmeron and seven or eight warriors and mages followed her up.
The middle-aged priest looked at her, watching her walk up the steps step by step until she came in front of him. He finally said, "Your Majesty Laura, I'm glad you came on time. I am Felix, the chief priest of this disciplinary hall."
"Priest Felix, thank you for arranging this meeting for me," said Queen Laura.
"You don't need to thank me. It was the Golden Branch Priest who became interested in you, or rather, the recent changes in the kingdom." Felix smiled and said, "Your Majesty, please come with me to rest first. I will go and inform the Golden Branch Priest."
"Please lead the way." said Queen Laura.
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 around and saw that many vines had grown between the cracks in the rocks, entangled the hands and feet of her subordinates, including Salmeron Melon. Each of them was tied up by seven or eight vines and was imprisoned in their current position, unable to move.
Queen Laura was shocked and angry. She reached out and grasped the hilt of the sword at her waist and shouted, "Priest Felix, what's going on? Why are you attacking my men?"
Felix said, "This is not an attack, just a test. The Saint is not someone that everyone can see. You are the Saint's guest, 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 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 her sword and glared at Priest Felix. The other raised his eyebrows and asked, "Your Majesty, what are you doing? Are you not going to go in with me? Or are you going to fight me?"
"I won't give up on them like this." Laura said, she turned around and used her fighting spirit to chop the vines on Salmeron. Felix didn't say anything about her actions, just watched her fight with the vines quietly.
"Your Majesty, please leave me alone. I can break free of this vine by myself. Please believe me." Salmeron said. After he said this, the fighting spirit in 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'll go help the others!" Queen Laura took two steps and rushed towards another guard mage. She chopped the vine with the long sword in her hand, but it didn't cut the vine, and only cut less than one-third of the depth.
This personal guard mage was also a great magician, but his level was far behind Felix. He struggled to use magic to attack the vines, and said, "Your Majesty, this is not an ordinary vine. It is a vine blessed by the Temple of Nature, released by a great magician like Felix. It is too difficult for you to cut it with your current strength. Please let us find a way to get rid of this restraint ourselves. You just need to wait patiently for us."
"No, I cut it in!" Laura said, "As a monarch, I shouldn't retreat at this time!"
Laura's realm was limited, but the long sword in her hand was a holy weapon. Although she could not exert the true power of the long sword, the sharpness of the long sword itself had helped her a lot. She used her luck and fighting spirit to chop 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 asked nervously. He looked at the bottle carefully for a few times and shouted loudly, "Is it the essence of crazy blood? Stop! Stop immediately! This potion that stimulates potential is very harmful to the mind and body! It will also make the consciousness on the verge of losing control. Only berserkers with particularly strong bodies will use it. You can't drink this potion!"
Queen Laura ignored her subordinates' shouting, drank the potion, and used her fighting spirit to spread it to various parts of her body. She immediately felt a violent force pouring into her body. She even felt that a violent intention was also instilled into her mind. She now had an urge to fight, but fortunately, with the blessing of various magic props on her body, she basically maintained her sanity.
Laura raised the holy sword with both hands again, and using the strength added to her body, she chopped the vines hard.
This time, she cut off the vines that trapped the mage with her sword. The overflowing sword energy even cut through the mage's body, but in this way, the mage was completely freed.
Laura did the same thing, slashing at the vines on other people's bodies with her sword again and again.
(To be continued)