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Even with roughly equal stats and the Tome of Chaos in his inventory, along with the hero's armor, it's extremely difficult to do anything against a mage with extremely high initiative. Therefore, the main character...

I don't think that with knowledge level 22, the hero could be called "extremely initiative." 22 knowledge corresponds to only +22% initiative, which can also be partially offset by the Banshee's scream. Furthermore, judging by the number of mages in Arandor's army, they had been playing for at least 2 months. In that time, they could have found some decent artifacts and assembled an army, twice as large as Arandor's. And the Tome of Chaos also raises suspicions – why does a Necromancer need it? Besides, Arandor didn't have such problematic items for the Necromancer in his spellbook, like Antimagic and Divine Intervention, which are always a problem. And Arandor, according to his words, is playing with mages for the first time. Honestly, I used to think that mages can only defeat Necromancers with Sandro's Cloak, because they are so weak in the late game. And now, suddenly, Zybr, who seems like an experienced player, lost to mages... Hmm.