Back at the Emerald City, Ozma and her friends celebrate her birthday (though without quite the pomp and fanfare from "The Road to Oz") and then decide how to deal with the evil magicians transformed into nuts. The Wizard uses "Pyrzqxgl" to change them back to Kiki Aru and Ruggedo and make them thirsty enough to drink the Water of Oblivion, which will make them forget all that they have ever known. The now-blank slate Kiki Aru and Ruggedo will live in the Emerald City and learn to be good and kind. The upsurge in sales that had greeted the previous Oz book, "The Tin Woodman of Oz," in 1918 also affected "The Magic of Oz," which sold 26,200 copies. The Oz books in total sold almost twice as many copies in 1919 as in 1918, and 1918 had been an exceptionally good year. The high sales were most likely influenced by the death of Baum earlier in 1919.