Gladys slept through the night.
When she opened her eyes, she found herself lying in a camping tent.
Gladys: Huh? I remember I was facing the moon and fell headfirst onto the ground when I fainted. How did I end up lying in the tent?
Gladys rubbed the back of her aching head. The system spoke faintly in her mind, "Host, I have some bad news and some good news for you."
The system's tone was strange, its mechanical voice trembling unnaturally, and the tail tone was trembling. Gladys tilted her head. What was wrong with the system? Could it be that if she had a headache, the system would also feel pain?
"Let me tell you the good news first." Gladys said. She rolled out of the quilt and looked at the tent curtain with her eyes open.
[The good news is that after you fainted last night, Princess Laura took you into the tent. Because the little princess is extremely kind, she took good care of you and didn't let you catch a cold. She is even cooking mushrooms for breakfast for you outside the tent.]
After hearing the system's words, Gladys took a long time to process them, not knowing how to react. As expected of a kind-hearted heroine, Princess Laura was truly too kind.
It has to be said that one of the important reasons why the evil witch in the original book could continue to abuse Princess Laura was that Princess Laura was too kind. She did not even resist the witch and always believed that her kindness and love could influence the evil witch and make the witch a good person.
After thinking about the contents of the original book, Gladys looked at the scene before her.
Eh...is the tent curtain so high?
Gladys came back to her senses as if from a trance, waking up from the hazy feeling left over from her sleep. Suddenly, she felt that everything around her had become taller, as if it had become twice as high.
"What's the bad news?" Gladys asked the system as she walked out of the tent.
[The bad news is that the host has turned into a mushroom.]
Gladys: "...What?!"
[Host, I only realized after you transformed last night that the mushroom soup you drank was made from a rainbow mushroom called "Experience Mushroom Day." After drinking it, ahem, there's a 99% chance you'll transform into a mushroom for an unspecified duration.]
After barely finishing the explanation, the system finally couldn't help but "Hahahahaha host, you are now a mushroom hahahahahahahahahahaha——"
Gladys ran out of the tent as if she had seen a ghost.
"My Lady Witch, you're awake." Laura's clear and pleasant voice sounded, and the morning mist dissipated slightly under the early morning light. The mist dispersed, just like lifting a veil, revealing "her" beautiful face.
Gladys subconsciously raised her head.
In Gladys's eyes, Laura became twice as tall, bigger and more delicate. Or rather, Gladys became smaller, her body turned into a mushroom, and was as tall as a five or six-year-old human child.
When Gladys first woke up, she still had short arms and legs with colorful mushroom patterns made of mushroom fibers. She could lift the quilt and walk, so she didn't notice anything wrong in her daze.
When Gladys came out of the tent, the light shone on her. She shivered, and her tentacles and legs retracted, and she completely turned into a mushroom, a completely colorful mushroom.
I turned into a mushroom?!
"Ahhh%" Gladys looked at Laura and yelled, her voice was shrill and small.
Lola blinked her golden eyes and asked hesitantly, "Ms. Witch, did you use the transformation magic?"
The mushroom that Gladys turned into looked at him anxiously, its colorful mushroom head shaking back and forth.
Gladys: "%#@Aa ...
Don't take this opportunity to escape, I still have to take you back to the tower!
"System! Why did I turn into a mushroom while Laura remained unchanged after drinking the same rainbow mushroom soup?" Gladys asked in her mind.
"Because she is the heroine." The system said in a deep tone.
"Lola is the Mary Sue heroine of this world, the beloved princess of the God of All Creation. If eating 'Experience Mushroom Day' has a 99% chance of turning into a mushroom, then Lola is the remaining 1%, the kind that pulls out a miracle."
"Even if Princess Laura drinks a mouthful of mushroom soup and there's a 99% chance she'll turn into a mushroom, when she takes a second sip, the remaining 1% chance will take effect, canceling out the positive and negative chances and keeping her safe. No matter how much she drinks the mushroom soup, the God of All Things has a way to prevent her from turning into a mushroom."
Gladys: That sounds like complete nonsense!
Damn it, she doesn’t understand the world of European emperors.
Lola glanced at Gladys's shaking rainbow mushroom head. He smiled and said gently to the evil witch who kidnapped him, "I made breakfast for you, Your Majesty. Would you like some mushroom soup?"
Gladys followed Laura's gaze and saw mushroom fragments floating in the "Apprentice Witch's Favorite Cooking Pot."
Gladys felt a chill and the mushroom body burrowed into the ground.
"System, is there any skill or item that can change me back?"
[There is a potion to remove the transformation effect, but it costs 222 Witch Crystals. The host only has 6 Witch Crystals.]
Gladys: “…”
[Don't be discouraged~ Friendly reminder, Abuse Points can be exchanged for Witch Crystals, with a daily limit of 100. 1 Abuse Point corresponds to 4 Witch Crystals. The host has 12 Abuse Points, which can be exchanged for 48 Witch Crystals. Add the remaining 6 Witch Crystals, for a total of 54 Witch Crystals. 54 Witch Crystals are just enough to exchange for Talking Candies.]
Talking Candy is an extremely useless item. Its description reads: "Animals that eat Talking Candy, or plants that melt Talking Candy, can speak human language."
Normally, Gladys has the built-in translation function of the Evil Witch system and doesn't bother to exchange for talking candies.
However, at this moment, she had to use up all her family's assets to exchange for a piece of talking candy.
"Princess Laura! Hurry up and take my things, pick me up, and follow my instructions to leave the Dark Night Forest!" As soon as Gladys was able to speak, she immediately instructed Laura with a vicious tone.
The main quest of kidnapping the little princess was stuck at 99%, and Gladys felt that this was not going to work.
This is the first main mission.
She had to complete the task quickly and lock Lola in the tower so that she could unlock the next main task.
Moreover, it is unknown how long it will take for the effect of turning into a mushroom to be lifted. It is too random. It may be an hour, a day, or even a month. Gladys cannot wait there forever.
So, Gladys asked the system to pull up the map and let Laura hold her in her mushroom-like form and walk back to the tower in the border forest.
It’s Lola who’s on the road!
It's Lola who suffers!
To sum up, she is abusing Laura.
The kind little princess obediently picked up Gladys. From the looks of it, Lola was holding a large rainbow mushroom.
When leaving the resting place, Laura followed Gladys's instructions and put Gladys's things into the witch's wide hat. Then, as she walked, Laura put the witch's wide hat on Gladys's mushroom head.
Gladys wondered why Laura didn't put the hat on her own head. Wouldn't it be weird to put it on Mushroom's head?
Gladys's mushroom head was blocked by the witch's wide hat, and the sunlight was completely blocked. She couldn't see anything outside. And maybe because she turned into a mushroom, Gladys was now extremely delicate. She felt the hat on her head was very heavy and uncomfortable.
She shook her mushroom head, nuzzled into Lola's arms, and commanded her in a haughty tone, "Lola, take off my hat and put it on your head. You will bear the weight."
"I advise Your Excellency the Witch not to do this." Laura whispered.
Gladys wondered why she, the evil witch, would listen to the little princess's advice?
"Lola, please recognize your identity. You can only obey my orders and take the hat off me." Gladys said.
Normal witches will not throw away their witch hats, nor will they let others wear their witch hats, unless the other person is the one the witch wants to form a blood pact with.
Greedy witches who attempt to form a blood pact with him usually die suddenly.
Laura's golden pupils turned in the sunlight, and she lowered her eyelids and glanced at the colorful mushrooms in her arms.
Suddenly I felt that there was no point in bothering with a mushroom.
He silently took off Gladys's wide witch hat and put it on his own head. "My Lady Witch, is this okay?"
The witch's wide hat was taken off, and the sunlight suddenly shone on Gladys. She felt as if her body was connected to some tubes, sucking away her moisture bit by bit. The air around her seemed to become dry, which made her instinctively repel it and twisted uncomfortably.
Gladys moved her mushroom head and subconsciously buried herself in Laura's arms, "I..."
[Host, wow, the action you just ordered Princess Laura to take has increased your abuse value by 30 points.]
Gladys: "I can."
Gladys buried the mushroom head in the princess's arms. While looking at the map on the system panel, she instructed the princess, "Go forward 530 meters. When you reach an intersection, turn left. There's a path used by demon hunters. Follow it straight and you'll be out of the Dark Night Forest."
"Mrs. Witch, there seems to be a dead end ahead." Lola said softly after a moment.
His voice fell into the silent dark forest, clear and cold, revealing a sense of weirdness.
Gladys raised her head from Laura's arms and saw a thorn bush in front of her.
It really is a dead end.
Gladys: “…”
"System, isn't this a spacious intersection that can accommodate freight carriages?"
[Ah, sorry, because the host's witch level is too low, the system can only update the small map information once a month. The sudden appearance of thorn bushes may be caused by the demon hunter fighting monsters when passing by.]
"Is there another way?"
System: "Either fly over, or accumulate abuse points and use them to redeem the clown scissors to cut through the thorns."
To fly over, you need to sit on a broom, and the broom is bound to its owner and will recognize its owner. Only the owner can use the broom.
Even after upgrading to a blue version, Gladys's broom is still junk equipment, unable to even recognize its owner. After Gladys transforms into a mushroom, the broom no longer recognizes her and won't carry her flying. It even tries to sweep her into the trash.
Gladys thought that when she got back she would sweep the tower with a broom and tire the stupid broom out.
"How much abuse value does the clown scissors require?" she asked the system.
System: "100 points."
Gladys quickly cast a vicious look at Laura.
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