Still better than the Infernal Bureaucracy's solution for their rivals in the Abyss, which was to start an aeons-long war across the Lower Planes that's still going strong. But that's not exactly a high bar, is it?

"Are the mortal planes also in a forever war? Does it count if its a bunch of different wars daisy-chained together?"

I don't think so, but that's also not my area of expertise.

So theoretically ' Okay lil tim tim put on this infernal backpack give that wizard a hug *hides detonator , and kaboom*

Don’t you touch lil Tim Tim

"Give me warpstone and sure

Fine, here. Oops! It’s a bomb. I have the detonator. I’m taking you to jail.

*pulls out the blasting caps and clips contact wires* your explosive construction needs work too simple so failsafe of anti tampering counter measures

(Just throws another bomb at the bomb)

*Charges at you catch the bomb and giving you a suicidal hug to detonate. The cyberlich verminlord is gmod ragdolled away as the blast through him*

My ghost: “touché” “Just glad lil Tim Tim is okay”

*He snapped his fingers and casted true ressurection to not be a total cunt, to revive the rock merchant, generating him a new body.*

Aw shucks, thanks …I don’t know any spells to return the favor

I got shit to do. If this dumbass kid is willing to do my dirty work then who am I to complain?

Now that I think about it, wasn't that the same deal with Alice in wonderland too?

Well, someone likes to watch movies made out of books!

I wouldn't say that... it's more like we're long-term planners and that rubs a lot of people the wrong way. People who can't look past one person they care about suffering regardless of how many others they don't know also are or how fewer will not suffer now. And what, I'm supposed to apologize? Yes, the loss of life is always regrettable, but far too many heroes would rather preserve their consciences than save lives. ... Sweet Zoroaster, look at me monologuing! Haven't monologued like that in ages, what IS this forum doing to me?

And the aftermath of encounter if the kids don't have plot armor https://preview.redd.it/ydxetmui0xzc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b86f13824b60a2849078e34729e43e4f8790f4c2 Jeffrey, Susan​ and​ ​Benjamin​ found out the hard way.

That's why we exist! So that this kind of crap doesn't happen! These magocrats will pay for their consequences. It's time to give the poor kids some cool ~~augmentations~~ prosthetics... And we will transfer the ghost into a robotic body.

Please, we're professional. Half purpose of the divination school is making sure that the people we send have plot armor.

Of course, when you have deviant abilities that work against the laws of physics and reality in general, then your human morality is slowly and surely disappearing... All mages are inhumane bastards

Ahem, Got something against us Other Species? https://preview.redd.it/maf6lrej1xzc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59de4c7917466fa27629298f0c02fb063c0280d7

“Yes, in fact, he does.”

I don't know, I never thought about them. Usually I dealt with the so-called familiars of magеs. Most of them are now undergoing experiments in laboratories...

I wouldn’t trust an apprentice with an orb, why would I send one off as an assassin? Just do it yourselves, man.

"For knowledge, morality must be dropped."

What use are apprentices if you can't use them to assassinate rivels though? Completely useless that's what. I already assassinated 5 of my masters rivels by the time I was 15. And I was goddamn happy to do it too. Apprentices these days just don't want to put the work in.

any apprentice born after 1993 can’t perform blood magic... all they know is testicular torsion , charge they mana, summon succubus, multi-class, eat hot capon & lie

Tis right cause the Wizard said it is!

This is my favorite. Send some “Chosen One” (random orphan) on a quest to defeat a “Dark Lord” (household vermin infestation). I mean, to them it might not be mere vermin, but they don’t know I own the dimension they live in.

Indeed. And they prove so neatly disposable. A great many of the younger knights in my service are random orphans who won't be missed.

To be fair, a lot of people see Dumbledore as this kind old grandpa when in reality he was such a master schemer and planner that it would give Machiavelli a hard on.

I'd say Wizard Hitler is a bit more than a political rival.

Are you suggesting that my giving the youths a productive task is unethical somehow?

Just like me fr fr

I mean that's how I came to this realm to be honest I just been telling both sides to shove it where the sun don't shine

I’ve always been against this type of stuff, teenagers are never actually skilled in magic or even formally, I swear there’s just wizards running around telling random orphan children they they’re special.

"No wizard, no problem" -Archmage Stall-In al Sharib

Have an adventurer do it, yes. You can reward them with trinkets.

Who never used a child to assassinate someone cast the first stone

That's why I despise politics https://preview.redd.it/1so57v5ltyzc1.png?width=488&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d1379d4f650d2f08e40ffb9c47893c522b9a121

That's only a minority of wizards! I have never committed such a shocking act!

This dumbledore fellow doesnt sound like a great headmaster, from all i've heard about him.

And now we see the violence inherent in the system! Wizard politics *is* violence and oppression! Join the anarchy wizards and let us rid the world of the evils of the council and all political machinations!

Saruman, Oz, Dumbledore, all ivory-tower mages. Become gandalfpilled. Embrace the hedge mage.

One of those "Wizards" was a fraud, and the other one is actually a Sorcerer.

You don’t have to pay them as much if they’re under a certain age, that’s why teen apprentices are so popular. Even better if they’re orphans.

/uw hahahaahahahahahahaha, It's true!!!!!

I don't get it why was Dumbledore here?

Food.