A New Zealand city seems to have left itself vulnerable to a revenge hex.

The city council of Christchurch announced that it will stop paying its official wizard $16,000 ($10,400 USD) a year in December, New Zealand news site Stuff reported .

Ian Brackenbury Channell (aka the Wizard) has been serving as the citys appointed necromancer since the olden days of 1998. Over the past few decades he has made a total of $368,000 (roughly $258,825 USD) to provide acts of wizardry and other wizard-like-services as part of promotional work for the city of Christchurch.