The Fourth Volume Eight: The Eunuch Grandmaster

  Become a eunuch's great wizard

  "It turns out this fat old man's situation was so dangerous, it seems I really helped him a lot this time."

  Having figured this out, Fili immediately found a very sufficient reason for the magical items he had searched from the weather station earlier: I'm your lifesaver, aren't such great kindness and virtue worth you taking out some property to repay me?

  Now that he had established that he wasn't stealing, but rather collecting his due reward, Phil regained his psychological balance and put on a savior's face. "Mr. Ovo, I deeply sympathize with your unfortunate situation, but this is still no excuse for you to leave your post without permission. Do you know where you are now?"

  "When did I ever leave this dump? Of course, it was at the polar weather station!" Ovo looked at Phil with a "you're an idiot" expression. "By the way, I got too excited just now and forgot to ask your identity. Are you here to take over my shift?"

  "Of course not!" Fili heard, shook his head somewhat unpleasantly, "I have to correct your two mistakes: first, this is not the North Pole; second, I'm even less here to replace you as an exile!"

  "Not the North Pole? Then where is it? I've been stuck in this room without moving!" Apparently, Owo only heard the first half of the sentence.

  "It's true," Fhieri said with a serious nod, "You probably don't know, but while you were sleeping on the ice block, your entire weather station collapsed from the Arctic glacier and turned into an iceberg floating in the sea. So..." He looked at Owo in the bathtub with a very pitiful gaze. The chubby Owo felt his heart racing, "The location where you are now is Emon Port, New Morsubray State, at least 2,000 miles away from the Arctic. Therefore, you have committed the crime of unauthorized departure and escape from exile. Given your sensitive identity, I must contact the local authorities to let Chief Executive Ganmery make a decision. So please continue to wait here patiently, and I will notify you as soon as there is any news."

  "Is that Ganmeryll? That mistress of El'goroth's? He's now the Imperial Chief Administrator!" Owo's fat face suddenly showed a look of panic, "Damn it, that bastard will definitely get me killed! Young man, please don't report this to anyone, I'm begging you, just let me leave quietly and don't go spreading rumors around!"

  It's just that knowing Ganmeryll is a student of Ylminster and your relationship has deteriorated to the extreme, I dare say this. Look at you, old fatty, what are you still pretending to be! Ferri muttered to himself, but the secrets that came out of Owo's mouth also surprised him. The appetite of Queen Eralysuto is truly unimaginable. Even a lich dares to want it, Ferri originally didn't think there would be such inside information. Of course, this is beneficial for his plans.

  "This... Your request is really putting me in a difficult position, after all, I am also a government official, it's my duty! " Phil said in an official tone, "By the way, I should introduce myself first. My name is Phil Taylor, and I'm currently serving as Colonel Commander of the Great Bear Army Corps. It's an honor to meet you, great wizard sir."

  "What's this 'Giant Bear Legion'? I've never heard of such a unit?" Owo blinked his characteristic red eyes, "I've been in the Senate for years and still have a good grasp on government and military organization. The New Colorial Colony only has one New Continental Legion, where did you come up with this 'Giant Bear Legion' from?"

  "The Great Bear Legion was just formed in the war," Fili explained, "You may not know that our country went to war with the Elf Kingdom again last year."

  "Oh, fighting with those long-eared guys again, huh?" Owo immediately found a new topic. He immediately recalled his past achievements and began to boast, "Young man, you may not know that I have had dealings with elves before. A long time ago, I even killed my way onto the Eternal Island, and in the last war, I caught an elven female general on the front lines. That little girl was so beautiful..."

  This guy is even more talkative than Tang Seng, but his moral character is much worse. Watching Owo lying on the ice block and recalling his glorious experiences in a muddled way, Fili found that rolling her eyes had become her habitual action today. Losing patience, he took out his magic wand from his robe and knocked it hard against Owo's head, opening his mouth before Owo got angry.

  "I'm sorry to interrupt your reminiscence, but since you want me to keep secret the news of your unauthorized departure from exile, I do have a suggestion for your reference..."

  "You're asking me to join your legion and serve under you, aren't you?" Although Owo was often eccentric, his mind wasn't bad, and he quickly guessed Phil's intentions. "In that case, even if I'm conscripted into the army, the crime of escaping from exile can't be established, and I won't be sent back to the North Pole either, right?"

  "It's no wonder you've lived for thousands of years as a great Taoist master, I'm sure that's what you mean, how do you think?"

  "Baldy, do you know what you're saying? You actually want a great wizard, a great wizard to be subordinate to your mere colonel!"

  Awo glared at Ferri's slick head, shouting loudly. However, although he sounded extremely angry, when combined with his current situation of being frozen in an ice block, it gave people a feeling of being fierce on the outside but weak on the inside.

  "I did not mean to offend or coerce you, Mr. Owo." Fili bowed his head in a wizardly salute of apology, but there was no hint of remorse on his lips.

  "You may have been a great wizard and an elder of the empire, but now you're just a fugitive. He tapped on the magical restraint collar around Ovo's neck, a device specifically designed for exiled mages. "With this thing on, you haven't completely lost your ability to use magic, but at most, you can only cast 2nd or 3rd level spells."

  "4, I can still use 4th level magic!" Owo muttered.

  "Alright, even if you still have 4 magic left, what's the big deal?" Fili shrugged and made a final showdown with Owo, "If it weren't for the extreme lack of mages in the legion, how would I dare to risk offending Queen Eralstro and release you? Helping others selflessly is not the style of mages, let alone taking the blame for others, unless there's a corresponding benefit."

  "In short." Fili made a final summary. "You now have two roads to walk, either stay here and wait for the verdict of Chancellor Ganmeryll, or"

  "Kong Jun will be my magic advisor. Don't worry, I don't have high expectations, just one year is enough."

  It's all just empty threats. The traffic between the mainland and the colonies is basically isolated, with only unreliable long-distance communication still maintaining contact. Even if Ganmery received the message, there was no way to dispatch personnel to deal with the escaped prisoners on the other side of the ocean. Moreover, the current war situation is intense, and he has many things to attend to, so he may not have much thought for a mere Ovo flower.

  But Ouwo, who had been frozen in the bathtub for three years, couldn't possibly understand this. So after hearing this revelation, his fat face twitched uncontrollably, unsure whether he was angry or worried, and was clearly in a state of intense mental struggle: although he wanted to leave this icy prison, he couldn't bear to lose face in front of his junior.

  "And I can absolutely give you the treatment that matches your status! Wasn't your floating city confiscated? Don't worry, I'll give you a new one right away!" After the stick comes the carrot, using both kindness and severity is the way of kings. Ferri was very clear on this point, and he still had plenty of carrots in his hand, "Also, I can give you a black dragon as a mount! Think about it, living in a floating city in the clouds, riding a mighty black dragon. Even I and my superior don't have such treatment, am I not being generous enough to you, great wizard?"

  "Alright, I'll just compromise this time." After hesitating for a long while. Owo was still tempted by Fili's words and finally signed the contract, "Only one year, not a single day more! And are the floating city and black dragon you mentioned real? I remember that New Continent only has one floating city, Gray Castle."

  "Absolutely true, Greyfort is now under my management. With just a slight renovation, I can hand it over to you!" Phil promised with a confident pat on his chest, "Do you have any other requirements? As long as we can do it, we will definitely strive to achieve it."

  "Remember to install a luxurious bathroom in the floating city... wait. You haven't even gotten me out of this ice block yet!"

  "Sorry, I'll get the ice open right away."

  The recruitment of the witch plan was completed smoothly, and Fili finally let out a sigh of relief. But how to get this fat old man out of the bathtub? Fili looked around the bathroom again, but it was so clean that there wasn't even a stone. He checked the clothes rack for hanging long gowns, only to find that it was also made of glass and couldn't be used at all.

  In the end, Phil, who had nothing to gain, could only pull out a palm-sized miniature pistol from his pocket, load it with bullets and propellant, and aim at the ice block where the fat witch was.

  "Mr. Owo, nothing usable can be found in your bathroom, and there's no way to solve the problem with magic, so I'll have to try a more drastic measure."

  "Hey, stop it! Are you trying to break every bone in my body?"

  "Don't worry, this gun's power is as small as its size! Last time I used it to shoot a rabbit, it didn't even penetrate the rabbit's skin."

  "This is useless? How can you get me out of this ice block then?"

  "It doesn't matter, I'll just fire a few more shots."

  "...You'd better aim well for me, I don't want to be disfigured at this age!"

  The pistol's power was apparently not as bad as Phil said, and by the third shot, the ice block and bathtub were in pieces. Phil grabbed Ovo's head and pulled him out of the ice shards and glass debris like a radish. It wasn't until then that he realized his bullets seemed to have hit an extremely unlikely place.

  "You damn bastard, where are you shooting at?!" Owo, who had just escaped from the ice block, was furious, his fat face trembling with rage as he pointed to his empty ** and began to scold Phil in a loud voice. "This is my body that I've managed to preserve for 3,000 years! And you've destroyed the most important part of it! Tell me, you heartless thing, what kind of death do you want to choose?!"

  “……I'm really sorry, but I didn't mean to! ” Phil pleaded, waving his hands and slowly backing away towards the entrance. At this moment, Owo had transformed into a terrifying giant octopus, brandishing a mass of tentacles in a threatening manner. “Mr. Owo, please calm down, it was an accident! If I hadn't used my gun to break through the ice, how would you have gotten out of the bathtub? Please calm down first, and we can discuss ways to make up for this, okay?”

  Ovo glared at Fili with a fierce gaze, finally withdrawing his hand and turning to put on his clothes. However, before Fili could even let out a sigh of relief, Ovo noticed the anti-magic array on the ceiling and suddenly had an epiphany.

  "Wait, can't you just use bullets to destroy the anti-magic array first and then use magic to rescue me?"

  “……”

  "I'm going to kill you, you bastard!"

  ……

  "One piece, two pieces, three pieces. Hmm, it seems like I can assemble them this way. Glue, where did I put my glue?"

  After being beaten by Avo's tentacles, Phil who had caused a big disaster started to make amends and played jigsaw puzzle to win back the lower half of the great wizard.

  The lich's body was, after all, just dead flesh preserved with anti-corrosion techniques. As long as the broken parts were reassembled and then combined with undead magic, it should be roughly the same as its original body. Wearing a magnificent robe, Owo sat on the floor, puffing out his chest, watching Philie work on the puzzle, occasionally urging him on with a couple of words.

  "Are you done?"

  "Hurry up, you wait a bit more. It seems like it's been arranged wrongly here..."

  "Wah wah!"

  With a thunderous roar, the small ice cave suddenly shook violently. Fili, who was applying glue, accidentally let go of the half-finished product in his hand and it flew out.

  "Oh no!"

  Bang!

  Before he could pick up the things, the ceiling was smashed to pieces by a violent collision. A fluffy and obese body fell from the broken opening, just in front of Phil, crushing the unfinished thing into a meat paste.

  Fili was finally able to escape from this tedious and disgusting puzzle work, because even God couldn't restore that meat sauce back into human organs. The great magician Mr. Owo ultimately couldn't escape the fate of becoming a eunuch.

  "Uh... Mr. Owo, how about I make one for you out of rubber instead? Or maybe some high-grade wood? Hey, hey! Don't choke me, do you want to murder your superior?"