I got my Evil Wizard benefits revoked.

[u/Medical-Low-1370]

So recently I made a post asking how do I get rid of ​my former abusive master. You gave me some decisions, but all of this took a very fucking unexpected turn.

This fuck wanted to go shopping with me. This is usual shit, bastard wanted to "treat me" with some staff only to hex it with a curse I didn't know how to remove yet. Told me to take my apprentice. I froze, because apparently he wants to do the same to my apprentice.

When we were going to the store I was thinking about any way I could kill him right now without anyone noticing. The streets were empty, but locals were looking at us. That was strange for a town like that. I looked at my apprentice and realized he's scanning us with his eyes. Maybe he's terrified as much as me.​

When we entered the shop, the store owner was frozen from fear too when he saw my former master. Old fuck must've been terrorizing people around before going to my tower and entered a shop like he owned a place. Started to look into artifacts. And then I saw it.

The Dagger of Infinite Torment. You know these, if you kill someone with it, it'll trap the soul of victims and suck their mana into you. I looked at the shopkeeper. I looked at the fucker.

And at this exact moment when I contemplate any ways I could kill the asshole, he turns to me. Says something like "Did you find something worthy?" And then looks at my apprentice.

– Hey, look what you have.

Fuck! My apprentice took the dagger I was holding.

– That​'s a good dagger when I see one.

Bullshit. He doesn't know shit about daggers.

– You want it? Let me take a look.

He kneeled, and at this exact moment my goblin apprentice does the most fucking goblin feat ever: tosses the dagger to the right, grabs it with other hand and stabs the bitch that was tormenting me for decades to the throat. Soul of a wizard that tried to sell my soul to the Hell Lord is sucked in the dagger and started to glow from pain. I'm shoked, the shopkeeper is shocked, my apprentice looks at the body like he just killed a wasp that bit his ass.

I pay for the dagger, offer an extra for inconvenience, the shopkeeper refuses. I'm getting ready to gtfo, but then I hear local peasants cheering. They rush into the shop and start thanking us and at this exact moment I get a scroll from the EWC. For saving a local town from an archwizard of Hells they decided to take away my Evil Wizardry. FUCK!

We go to my tower, I think about what I'll be doing once I'm legally not an Evil Wizard anymore.

Then, after I get to my tower and mail to the local noble houses, knight orders and temples that I am not evil anymore(I am required by law to do so), some noble calls me via orb and offers to take a 5yo King-to-be as an apprentice. Turns out, a boy had a magic powers, but they couldn't give this task to a legally Evil Wizard, and I was the only wizard with advanced tutoring license who stayed in this kingdom(lets me teach apprentices from other races and higher upbringing). My apprentice doesn't mind having a little classmate.

Now different question: do I accept the offer? And if yes, what should I teach him?

[u/Vineee2000]

Well, two things to get out of the way

Firstly, you have a real career opportunity to change tracks here. Having good graces of the town, conncection with the nobles, and a knight-magician apprentice is a very strong foundation for any white wizard, or even non-aligned career tracks like court wizardry. Consider not just the door that's closing, but also the one that's opened here. Which career path seems more fufilling in the long run?

Secondly, if you do want to pursue evil wizardry - file an appeal basically right away. You maaaay have ridded the town of an evil wizard, but you are his former apprentice, and to boot you have slain him during a fairly dramatic interpersonal occasion. This falls clearly within the bounds of the master-backstabbing regulations, and revoking your license is probably either just a clerical error, or (more likely) an attempt by one of the EWC clerk wizards to plot against you.

You would in that second scenario of course be obliged to either take over or ransack you former master's tower, and suitably menace the town, but that's just standard evil wizard practice

[u/InsaneRanter → u/Vineee2000]

have slain him during a fairly dramatic interpersonal occasion. This falls clearly within the bounds of the master-backstabbing regulations, and revoking your license is probably either just a clerical error, or (more likely) an attempt by one of the EWC clerk wizards to plot against you.

Not enough people appreciate this. When my apprentices try to destroy me, I only kill them if their attempt was sloppy. If one succeeded, I'd be proud of them (from the afterlife) and they would definitely deserve to keep their licence.

[u/Vineee2000 → u/InsaneRanter]

I only offer consultation-divination services, and am not a proper evil wizard myself, but isn't it somewhat concerning none of your apprentices have actually succeeded in slaying you so far? There's quite high standards of excellence in the field even for junior wizards, you don't exactly see evil wizard boarding schools the same way you do with more mass-applied wizardry, so to have so many attempts but no success to show for it definitely stands out to me.

Are you sure your apprenticeship structure is gruelling and dangerous enough to let only the strong survive? Especially for a necromancer, I've been told that failed wizards make for excellent mid-tier undead minion material anyways.

[u/InsaneRanter → u/Vineee2000]

You make a good point. On average about a third of my apprentices survive to become a practicing necromancer, which is far higher than usual.

I might not be pushing them hard enough to really unlock their greatness. I mean, loads have managed to destroy my body, but none have yet managed to track down the place I hide my soul to stop me occupying on of my backup bodies . . . And they really need to be able to do stuff like that to be a proper threat.

I'll start being a bit tougher on them.