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The Queen of the Sun charged me €8.00 to preheat Egypt.
She gave me three green triangles.
That was the entire miracle.
The Random Booster had scattered glowing multipliers across the grid before the spin started.
x8.
x16.
A particularly ambitious x32 near the middle.
The desert looked ready to produce a new religion.
Then the symbols landed.
Green gem.
Green gem.
Purple stone.
Ring.
Hourglass.
Blue thing.
Another green gem nowhere useful.
Nothing paid.
Nothing disappeared.
Nothing refilled.
Every beautifully heated square sat underneath jewellery that had apparently come to Egypt exclusively for the weather.
€0.00.
The Queen stood beside the reels in full gold, holding a sun staff in one hand and a ball of actual fire in the other.
She had the expression of someone who could erase darkness from the planet but had chosen not to interfere with three badly positioned emeralds.
I closed the Booster menu.
Back to €0.40.
The pyramids behind her had survived several thousand years.
They could survive my decision too.
Divine Queen: Power of Sun had started much more quietly.
€100.00 balance.
€0.40 spins.
A bright futuristic desert where virtually everything looked expensive enough to have been buried with somebody important.
Gold rings.
Hourglasses.
Red gems.
Purple gems.
Blue gems.
Green triangular stones that looked as though geometry had become precious.
The first useful spin scattered blue symbols around the grid.
They paid anywhere.
The winners vanished.
New symbols fell into the spaces.
Another little group connected.
Those disappeared too.
The cells underneath had begun to glow.
One became x2.
A second visit pushed another farther.
The spin finished at €2.40.
Then every multiplier vanished before the next round.
The Queen remained.
Apparently divine sunlight had a strict one-spin memory.
A few rounds later, red gems formed.
They disappeared.
Purple ones dropped in.
Another win.
A ring landed where a winning symbol had already exploded.
That square strengthened.
Another refill touched it again.
The little patch of desert became x4.
Then the chain stopped.
€3.20.
Next spin, ordinary ground.
Somewhere beneath several tonnes of Egyptian stonework, whoever had originally invented pyramids was probably relieved they had not built them on Cell Multipliers.
The balance stayed around €98 for a while.
Then €96.80.
That was when I opened the feature menu and discovered that the Queen had several different ways of making daylight more expensive.
I ignored the immediate Free Spins.
Ignored the spectacular x32 treatment.
Picked the random one.
€8.00.
One spin.
Maximum ceremony.
Minimum patience.
Three green triangles.
€0.00.
Balance €88.80.
I returned to €0.40 with the specific dignity of someone who had paid eight euros to discover that sunlight does not improve geometry.
The next few normal spins were almost peaceful.
A ring connection paid €1.60.
Blue gems managed €2.00.
An hourglass appeared inside a small refill chain and briefly sat on x4.
Time had become four times more valuable.
Then it vanished.
The Queen reacted whenever the reels actually got moving, raising the staff and feeding the whole thing more gold light.
A cascade of purple stones disappeared.
She moved.
New gems dropped.
Another win.
She moved again.
The woman was personally supervising jewellery falling down a wall.
The pyramids continued refusing to assist.
At €89.60, I switched on Chance ×10.
The spin cost became €1.20.
This seemed a more sustainable form of solar worship.
The first round landed one royal Scatter.
Nothing else.
Second spin:
two Scatters.
Still nothing.
The Queen’s own portraits had begun appearing around the grid like she was slowly discovering mirrors.
A blue-gem win returned €2.40.
Several symbols vanished.
An hourglass dropped into one of the used cells.
x2.
Another connection elsewhere.
The hourglass survived untouched.
The spin ended.
It had spent the entire cascade sitting on mildly enchanted ground and contributed nothing.
€86.80.
Another pair of Scatters appeared.
No fourth.
Then one.
Then zero.
The Chance ×10 was clearly inviting royalty without guaranteeing a quorum.
Balance:
€83.20.
A long refill sequence finally did some work.
Red gems disappeared.
Green gems fell.
Another win.
A ring replaced one of them.
The cell underneath reached x8.
Blue symbols connected across several positions.
One touched the hot square.
€6.00.
The Queen lifted the staff.
The whole desert flashed.
The ring remained exactly where it was, now looking less like jewellery and more like an object people would build a temple around.
The chain ended.
€82.00.
Next spin:
nothing useful.
€80.80.
Then the portraits arrived.
One Scatter.
Two.
Three.
Four.
The Queen was now represented both physically beside the reels and repeatedly inside them.
Egypt had achieved surplus monarchy.
Free Spins.
Balance before the feature:
€79.60.
Ten spins appeared.
The first one was modest.
Purple stones.
A little win.
They vanished.
New symbols fell.
One cell became x2.
Another became x2.
€1.60.
The crucial difference was that the glowing cells stayed.
The desert had stopped forgetting.
Second Free Spin.
A ring landed over one of the x2 positions.
Red gems connected elsewhere and vanished.
Refill.
Blue symbols formed another win involving the ring’s cell.
x4.
More disappeared.
A new ring arrived.
The square underneath climbed again.
€3.20.
Third spin.
Nothing paid.
The multipliers remained.
That was enough.
A row of ordinary jewels could fail completely and the hot ground just sat there waiting for the next procession.
The Queen watched.
x4.
x2.
x2.
The desert had started retaining grudges.
Fourth spin.
Green gems hit.
Refill.
An hourglass landed on the x4 cell.
Another set of green symbols formed.
The hourglass took part.
That patch climbed.
The resulting win came to €5.60.
The hourglass disappeared.
Time itself had been sacrificed to improve a floor tile.
The Queen raised the sun.
Somewhere in the background, a pyramid continued being much less complicated.
By the sixth Free Spin, several cells were glowing.
One had reached x16.
Another x8.
A couple sat at x4.
Every new refill looked like jewellery being dropped onto a collection of tiny solar altars.
Then three Scatters landed.
The Queen.
The Queen.
The Queen.
Five more Free Spins.
The counter expanded.
The multipliers stayed.
That was the point where the Bonus Game stopped resembling a sunny jewellery cascade and became an Egyptian heat emergency.
A blue gem landed on the x16 cell.
Won.
Disappeared.
Refill.
A ring arrived there.
Another win touched it.
x32.
The ring vanished.
A purple stone replaced it.
Another cascade elsewhere missed the square entirely.
The purple stone remained.
The most powerful patch of ground on the grid was now occupied by a gemstone apparently waiting for instructions from Ra.
€7.20 accumulated from the spin.
More Free Spins remained.
The x32 survived.
Next round barely touched anything.
Then a red-gem group activated two cells nearby.
One rose to x16.
Another to x8.
The Queen flashed again.
Her staff had become less ceremonial with every spin.
She was no longer illuminating Egypt.
She was cooking individual coordinates.
The feature total moved through €18.
Then €24.
Nothing huge yet.
The architecture was getting dangerous.
A refill sequence pushed the central x32 cell to x64.
An hourglass landed beside it.
A ring below.
Purple gems elsewhere.
No use.
They survived the spin.
The Queen had created a x64 sacred square and populated the neighbourhood with decorative objects.
Two spins later, blue gems finally covered it.
The win hit.
Symbols vanished.
That cell upgraded again.
x128.
There it was.
One tiny square of ancient Egypt now carried the maximum solar fever the game allowed.
The Queen stood beside the reels with a literal sun in her palm.
The x128 cell somehow looked more threatening.
Four Free Spins remained.
First:
nothing touched it.
Green gems paid elsewhere.
€2.40.
Second:
the x128 square received a purple jewel.
No matching group.
It stayed.
The jewel had been placed on the hottest point in the known desert and was apparently comfortable.
Third:
blue gems fell.
Enough of them.
One landed directly on the x128 cell.
The group paid.
The symbols vanished.
The payout moved hard.
Refill.
More blue.
Another small win.
The Queen lit up.
The total for that spin reached €31.60.
A blue stone had just acquired more divine authority than most pharaohs.
The feature total jumped beyond €55.
One spin remained.
Red gems.
Ring.
Green triangle.
Nothing enormous.
A refill produced a final €4.80.
Then the whole glowing grid cooled.
Feature total:
€67.80.
Balance:
€147.40.
The x128 disappeared.
The x64 disappeared.
The x16s.
The x8s.
Every sacred patch of desert returned to ordinary flooring.
The Queen remained standing beside the reels as though she had not just spent fifteen Free Spins turning one square into the surface of the sun.
I switched Chance ×10 off.
Back to €0.40.
One final spin.
A blue gem.
Two rings.
An hourglass.
Several green triangles.
No win.
No multiplier.
No refill.
€147.00.
Then a tiny residual payout from the finished presentation settled the balance at €147.40.
I stopped there.
The Queen still held her fire.
The pyramids still stood.
The jewellery had stopped falling.
Every cell was cold again.
Nothing on the screen suggested that, less than a minute earlier, one completely ordinary square underneath a blue gemstone had reached x128 and briefly become the most important piece of land in Egypt.
The Queen had her sun back.
I had €47.40 more than I started with.
And the green triangles from my €8 offering had contributed absolutely nothing.
Rudis made a grown man apologize to his screen.