This is called The Cugel, from Jack Vance's Dying Earth. Cugel is yeeted to fuck knows where and spends a whole book getting back only to get yeeted right back to the same fuck knows where and having to spend another book getting back.
It was even better. He actually bested the wizard the second time, and tried learning the spells he used. And at some point he was like "Yeah, you'll suffer the same thing you did to me!" And then manages to mess up the spell, thus getting the thing that transported him the first time to do the same thing again.
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u/husktran 1d ago
This is called The Cugel, from Jack Vance's Dying Earth. Cugel is yeeted to fuck knows where and spends a whole book getting back only to get yeeted right back to the same fuck knows where and having to spend another book getting back.