Wiz (ウィズ) is a major supporting character in the KonoSuba series. She is a former adventurer referred to as the Ice Witch (氷の魔女)[1] who retired after becoming a lich and a General of the Devil King's Army, opening a "famous" magic item shop in Axel.
Appearance[]
Wiz is a lovely and well-endowed woman in her early 20s with fair skin and a curvaceous figure. She has brown eyes and wavy brown hair reaching down to the front of her shoulders, further behind her back and slightly curling at the tips. Her fringe sometimes covers her right eye. Wiz also possesses a single ahoge that arcs off the top of her head.
Wiz's color theme is purple. She usually wears a light purple long dress under a dark purple hooded gambeson robe with golden props, and dark-purple boots. Over her robe, Wiz uses a golden cross brooch with bat wings.
Personality[]
Wiz is a soft-spoken and well-mannered person who always treats everyone with politeness, even Kazuma. She is also very compassionate, willing to sacrifice herself in order to help her friends, with a smile on her face. Wiz is very committed too, both to her promises made to party members in her shop, to help Vanir build his dungeon as well as to her shop. For such reasons, Kazuma says she is a "comforting big sister" type.[2]
However, Wiz is also an airhead, who never noticed her party member's crush on her[1], mistook Kazuma and Aqua as a couple[3] and even misinterpreted a duel challenge with a love confession.[4] It's a recurring joke that she exposes her Devil King's Generals comrades' identities while they are scheming by greeting them, since Wiz didn't realize those generals were disguised to begin with.
Wiz is a very innocent and hard-working person as well. She truly believes she can accomplish anything with hard work, even if it takes hundreds of years.[5] Unfortunately Wiz is unfit for her merchant job, since she has an awful taste for products. She evaluates products based on their magical power and merits, ignoring their demerits or defects. Wiz also has no talent advertising such products. Since she is not aware of her poor business sense, the moment Vanir takes his eyes off her, Wiz goes and purchases more useless junk, saying "it will definitely sell".
Thanks to her bad business sense and the fact all her money is invested in her shop, the harder Wiz works, the further she falls into debt, causing her to live in a constant state of poverty. Sometimes living by just consuming bread crusts and sugar water at the constant risk of going bankrupt. For such reasons, Wiz is a very humble and unassuming person.
When Wiz was an adventurer, she used to hunt monsters ruthlessly, getting frustrated when defeated or humiliated by them. However, after becoming a lich, Wiz became a softer person, who prefers to over-apologize and talk it out to avoid conflicts than a more aggressive approach. This is the reason why she is constantly bullied by Aqua and punished by Vanir.
Although Wiz is now a pacifist, who would rather beg for her life than lift her hand against her aggressor, she has some weak spots that make her nervous, as threats against innocent lives other than adventurers and knights whose job is to risk their lives in war against the Devil King,[6] and any hint about her real age, which Wiz insists it is "forever 20" since she became a lich.[7]
History[]
For Wiz's history, see her History tab.
Abilities[]
Lich Abilities: As a lich, Wiz is immortal and possesses several abilities unique to the undead, such as commanding ghosts. She can even create a magic circle that sends them to Heaven. However, she also gains their weakness to holy magic.
- Drain Touch: Absorbs MP and HP from a target, which in turn can be transferred to somebody else. However, when Wiz uses it on someone with Holy Aura, she may be purified, and on low-quality MP monsters, it causes her stomach feels bloated.
- Undead King's Hand: Gives debilitating debuffs on target with a physical touch or attacks with hostile intent. These include Level Drain, Curse, Sleep, Magic Seal, Panic, Petrification, and Instant Death.
- Physical Resistance: Physical attacks cannot hurt her unless enchanted weapons are used.
- Magical Resistance: As a lich, Wiz has high resistance against magical attacks.
- Cursed Petrification: Petrifies all enemies in a chosen location.
- Cursed Necromancy: Reanimates dead creatures to serve as allies.
- Night Vision: As an undead, Wiz has the ability to see in the dark.
Magic: Wiz is an incredibly powerful mage who can use a vast array of high level spells and is able to cast many of them without chanting. As a lich, she has an incredibly high magical power, as she can still move after casting Explosion Magic, and is even able to attack with mysterious invisible spells without chanting.
- Fire Resist: Grants the user resistance against fire-based attacks.
- Anti-Devil Curses: Wiz learns unspecified anti-devil curses in anticipation for her duel with Vanir.
- Basic Magic: Wiz has been shown to use basic magic. Due to her high magical power, her use of it far eclipses the likes of Kazuma.
- Freeze: Creates a chill able to freeze the surface of the target's body.
- Intermediate Magic: Wiz has been shown to use intermediate magic on occasion.
- Sleep: A curse that puts the target to sleep without them noticing.
- Paralyze: Makes a person unable to move.
- Freeze Gust: Creates a freezing white fog.
- Advanced Magic: As a powerful Arch Wizard, Wiz has access to advanced magic. She has specialized ice-type spells:
- Bottomless Swamp: Creates a dark-purple goo swamp that swallows anyone above it.
- Inferno: Summons enormous flames that incinerate that surrounding area.
- Light of Saber: Creates a beam of light that cleanly slices the target. It was used to cut through the barrier around the Devil King's castle.
- Crystal Prison: Summons a ball of ice that encases the victim in a prison of ice.
- Cursed Crystal Prison: A more powerful version of Crystal Prison that instantly encases the victim in a prison of ice. One of Wiz's most used spells.
- Cursed Lightning: Shoots a piercing bolt of black lightning. Wiz is capable of killing a dragon in one hit with this spell.
- Lightning Strike: Summons bolts of lightning from the sky to strike their opponent.
- Creation Magic: Wiz can also use spells for elemental construct creation.
- Create Earth Golem: Creates an earthen golem from the ground soil.
- Create Earth Wall: Creates a earthen wall or shield from the ground soil.
- Detection Magic: Wiz can use spells to locate traps, enemies and treasures:
- Enemy Search: Reacts to the enemy's presence in the target.
- Trap Search: Reacts to the trap presence in the target.
- Teleportation Magic: Magic branch that allows the user to transport a target to a different location instantly.
- Teleport: Instantaneously transports up to 4 targets to marked locations. Each user can have 3 marked locations for teleportation. Wiz's marked locations are the entrance of Axel, the Crimson Demon Village (formerly Arcanletia) and the entrance of the World Largest Dungeon in Elroad.
- Random Teleport: A spell that sends the target to an undetermined location.
- Explosion Magic: A special branch of magic that summons a single beam of light that detonates at the target, creating a devastating blast of pure magical power. However, it consumes so much MP, being a single shot spell. Even Wiz can just use it once a day, costing so much MP she becomes unable to use any other spell, like Teleport, after use it.
Equipment[]
Wiz usually uses some of the useless and defective products of her shop.
- Rosary: According to Wiz, it leads to "wonderful encounters", but it actually attracts monsters.
While trying to get rid of Vanir in the past, Wiz used a few magic tools against him:
- Forced Teleport Scroll: A scroll with a spell that forcibly teleports every living being in the area to another location.
- Barrier Tool: An item bought from the Crimson Demons that create a triangular barrier that can't be broken, both from inside and outside.
- Forbidden Crystal: A magical crystal that consumes the user's lifespan, boosting their magical power.
Trivia[]
- The Devil King used to have headaches with Wiz often selling his priceless heirlooms in her shop.[8]
- Both Wiz's real age and birthday are unknown.
- Wiz didn't become a skeleton like a regular lich because she keeps eating. She also doesn't use the toilet.[9]
- The reason why Wiz retired as an adventurer is because her card shows her class as "Lich". For this reason, she can't show it in the Guild.
- In the initial web novel, Wiz's Explosion was weaker than Megumin's right from the beginning, and had Teleported the Destroyer's coronatite core into a volcano.
- Wiz ranked the 8th place in KonoSuba Popularity Poll.
- Wiz ranked the 5th place in Sneaker Bunko Sexiest Character poll.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Consultation Light Novel, Chapter 5
- ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 6, Chapter 1
- ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 16, Chapter 2
- ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 13, Chapter 5
- ↑ Consultation Light Novel, Chapter 1
- ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 4, Chapter 5
- ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 4, Chapter 4
- ↑ KonoSuba Light Novel Volume 17, Chapter 4
- ↑ Wiz's Q&A
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