Recaps

Rienta and his companions waited out a blizzard in a village, where he helped Fern and Stark make up after a misunderstanding. After the storm ended, the group resumed their journey to the Magic City of Äußerst.

• Rienta and his companions took shelter in a village during a blizzard, and Frieren searched a magic shop for everyday spells she called legendary.
• As the group waited nearly a month for the blizzard to pass, Rienta struggled to fuse three spells into a new magic.
• Frieren told Rienta that Fern and Stark had fought, so he spoke with each of them and learned Stark had frightened Fern by grabbing her too tightly.
• Rienta helped Fern and Stark apologize and reconcile, then left them together and went to a tavern with Frieren.
• Two days later, the blizzard stopped, and Rienta and his companions continued toward the Magic City of Äußerst.

Frieren urged Fern and Rienta to take the First-Class Mage Exam so they could travel into the Northern Plateau, and the group rode toward Äußerst while discussing what made a mage strong. The chapter ended with exam candidates arriving in the city and Rienta sensing that he had overlooked something.

• On the way to Äußerst, Frieren suggested Fern and Rienta take the First-Class Mage Exam instead of her, explaining that a mage of that rank was needed to travel through the dangerous Northern Plateau.
• Rienta and his companions caught a carriage to Äußerst, where Frieren planned to learn about the exam and its practical combat portion.
• Fern called Frieren an old mage, and Frieren reminded Stark that she still remembered him calling her a stinking old hag before settling down to sleep on Fern's lap.
• Frieren woke, lamented that she could only see half the sky, then encouraged Fern and Rienta by explaining that a mage's strength depended on more than mana.
• Frieren said she had lost eleven times to mages with less mana than her, including four demons, one elf, and six humans, while Rienta wondered what he was overlooking.
• People preparing for the First-Class Mage Exam began arriving in Äußerst.

Übel met Kraft on the road to Äußerst, where she planned to take the First-Class Mage exam. Frieren, Fern, and Rienta arrived in the city and secured Frieren’s eligibility to take the exam using her Holy Staff Emblem.

• Übel prepared to confront the bandits following her, but Kraft arrived and drove them off before they could attack her.
• Kraft recognized that Übel had killed bandits in the nearby forest, warned her about her strong killing intent, and learned she was heading to Äußerst for the First-Class Mage exam.
• At the Continental Magic Association, Frieren tried to leave Fern and Rienta behind, but Fern and Rienta persuaded her to stay because they could not afford to hire a First-Class Mage.
• An elderly official recognized Frieren’s Holy Staff Emblem and confirmed that it qualified her to take the First-Class Mage exam.
• Frieren, Fern, and Rienta went to the library to study, where Frieren learned Fern had taken the Third-Class exam because it was the soonest available and Rienta had failed it.

Frieren trained Rienta and Fern for the First-Class Mage exam, which began with a team challenge to capture a Stille. Rienta’s team caught a bird with surprising ease and planned to wait out the test in the forest.

• Frieren read that First-Class Mages were rare and the exam was dangerous, then began training Rienta and Fern for the exam in two months.
• Rienta succeeded with his Trinity Fusion Magic, and he and Fern celebrated Frieren’s birthday with a lavish dinner.
• At the exam, Genau assigned the sixty candidates to teams of three and explained that each team had to capture a Stille and keep all members inside the barrier until sunset the next day.
• Rienta joined Honoroy and Heiterge, and the three followed Genau to the forest and lake where the first round began.
• After an hour, Rienta, Honoroy, and Heiterge easily caught a Stille, then decided to find a place to stay and wait.

Frieren devised a plan to catch a Stille by manipulating the barrier’s water sources, while Fern’s team was ambushed by Wirbel’s group. The chapter ended with the teams splitting into separate fights as other mages began targeting Frieren’s team.

• Frieren told Lawine and Kanne about her bird-catching magic and proposed leaving a single water source untouched after contaminating or freezing the others.
• Lawine agreed to Frieren’s risky plan, and the three split up to carry it out.
• Wirbel’s team ambushed Fern’s team as it headed toward the central lake, but Fern blocked their opening attack.
• Lawine froze the lake, creating a huge surge of mana that alerted nearby teams and prompted Dunkel to hunt for Team Two.
• Lant led Scharf away while Fern faced Ehre, and Übel charged at Wirbel as their fights began.

Fern trapped Ehre in a barrage of attacks while Rienta prepared to help the besieged teams. Frieren caught a Stille, but Laufen arrived before she and her companions could leave.

• Fern used a barrage of Ordinary Offensive Magic to force Ehre into a defensive position.
• Rienta explained his Shadow-Driving Magic to Honoroy and Heiterge, then offered to help the other teams; Honoroy agreed, provided they retreated if needed.
• Dunkel, Richter, and Laufen found dead examinees hanging from trees and left after Dunkel warned that Geisel used the bodies as bait.
• Frieren concealed her mana by a pool while Lawine and Kanne kept watch, then caught a thirsty Stille with Bird-Catching Magic.
• Frieren warned that someone had found them, and Laufen appeared before her, Lawine, and Kanne.

Fern and Wirbel’s group secured a Stille after their battles, while Frieren defeated Dunkel and recovered another bird from Laufen. Frieren remained confident that Kanne and her other teammate would win against Richter, and Rienta was surprised to hear she had analyzed the barrier.

• Fern arrived at Übel’s battlefield, freed Übel from Wirbel’s Binding Magic, and told Wirbel she had killed Ehre.
• Wirbel found Ehre unconscious, carried her and the injured Scharf through the forest, and caught a Stille with them.
• Frieren blocked Dunkel’s combined magic, defeated him, and told Rienta that Laufen had stolen her team’s Stille.
• Rienta threatened Dunkel to make Laufen hand over the bird, and Frieren bound both of them to a tree.
• Dunkel warned Frieren that Richter would kill her teammates, but Frieren said Kanne and the other one would win and revealed she had analyzed the barrier.

Frieren broke Serie’s barrier, allowing Kanne to use the rain and help Rabine defeat Licht. The girls rested after the battle while Frieren said Rienta would protect them until sunset.

• Licht attacked Rabine and Kanne with a stone spear, but Frieren broke the barrier covering the examination grounds.
• Genau and Sense realized the barrier had shattered, and Serie sensed it from her palace and praised Frieren.
• Frieren explained that Kanne could control scattered water, and Dunkel understood why the rain gave her an advantage against Licht.
• Rabine froze Licht’s hand and legs while Kanne formed a huge sphere of water that smashed through his Defensive Magic and swept him away.
• Frieren found Rabine and Kanne resting on the cliff and told them Rienta would protect them until sunset.

Rienta and the others finished the first test, while Rienta wondered about his vanished teammates and received a powerful new panel reward. After a chaotic visit from Frieren and Fern, he changed rooms and began studying the idea of Domains.

• Rienta freed Richter, and he and Frieren's group hid until sunset before heading to the proctor with the other teams.
• Genau announced that seven teams, twenty-one people, had passed the first test, with the second test scheduled in three days.
• Rienta recalled that Honoroy and Heiterge had dissolved after telling him they would not continue the exam, then found a cryptic letter on his panel.
• Rienta anchored Shadow and received Sealed Origin, which multiplied his mana and mental power fivefold before he suppressed the mana spreading through the inn.
• Frieren smashed Rienta's door into the wall, and Fern awkwardly claimed they had come to check whether he was asleep.
• Rienta paid for the damage, moved to another room, and began studying Domains after finding no answers in his panel letters.

Rienta spent the night developing a domain based on Projection Magic, shadow manipulation, and Personal Space, while Stark returned from drinking and got caught up in Rienta’s teasing. The next afternoon, Fern confronted Stark for staying up late and drinking, then attacked him with her mage’s fists.

• Rienta planned a domain modeled on Shirou’s Reality Marble and wrote down the framework, deciding he still needed a suitable chant and magic to complete it.
• Rienta discovered that increased mental power let him sustain Personal Space’s intangibility for about twenty seconds, though he still could not use it against enemies.
• Rienta teased Stark about going out drinking and falsely claimed Fern was furious with him, alarming Stark about the damage to his door.
• Fern arrived the next afternoon, having learned that Rienta had helped Frieren guard the Stille, and questioned Stark about sleeping late.
• Stark admitted he had stayed up late and gone out drinking, so Fern puffed up in anger and attacked him with a mage’s fists.

Rienta shared his new Domain Magic research with Frieren, and the party celebrated passing the first round of the exam over a meal. The next day, Frieren asked Rienta for help after Fern stopped speaking to her, and they went to fetch Stark, who had just been visited by a mysterious old man.

• Rienta showed Frieren his notes on a new Domain Magic spell, and Frieren praised the spell while noting its high mana cost.
• Rienta suggested celebrating their first-round exam success, and Frieren led the group to a restaurant she remembered from eighty years earlier.
• The party enjoyed their meal, and Rienta decided he could recreate the omelet rice and desserts but probably not the steak's secret recipe.
• Frieren told Rienta that Fern was angry because she had overslept and missed her turn to buy supplies, so he suggested they find Stark.
• Rienta and Frieren found Stark meditating by a cliff after a mysterious old man declared that he had grasped the essence of martial arts and had nothing more to teach him.
• Rienta told Stark that they needed his help.

Rienta helped Stark get Fern to reconcile by suggesting he invite her to buy snacks, then joined the group on their outing. After Wirbel took Stark along on a monster-hunting commission, Rienta felt awkward among the girls and retreated to his room to eat the snacks he had bought.

• On the way back to the inn, Rienta coached Stark to tell Fern that Frieren was reflecting on her actions and suggest buying snacks together.
• Stark invited Fern to shop for snacks, and Fern accepted after realizing Rienta had put him up to it.
• Rienta pretended to discuss magic with Frieren to conceal his coaching when Fern glanced back at them.
• At the snack shop, Lawine and Kanne joined the group, and Wirbel recruited Stark to help hunt a Fresa.
• After returning to the inn, Rienta left the girls to snack together and retreated to his room, where he tried the snacks and decided he still preferred steamed buns.

Sense began the second exam at the Fallen King's Mausoleum, requiring examinees to reach its deepest part by sunset the next day. Frieren, Fern, and Rienta explored together with Sense, while the remaining examinees eventually formed another group to enter the mausoleum.

• Fern received the second-exam notice and learned that Sense was the examiner, who had never had a successful exam before.
• Sense announced that examinees had to reach the deepest part of the Fallen King's Mausoleum, and gave each one an Escape Golem bottle for emergencies.
• Dunkel proposed that the examinees investigate the mausoleum's entrances together, but Dünste rejected cooperation and entered alone.
• Rienta, Fern, and Frieren set out with Sense, and Frieren guided them through the labyrinth while recalling Himmel's love of labyrinths.
• Fern identified a treasure chest as a Mimic, but Frieren still suspected it might contain a grimoire.
• Dunkel's group and the remaining members of the first team agreed to explore the mausoleum together.

Frieren, Fern, and Rienta explored the Fallen King's Mausoleum, where Frieren repeatedly fell for Mimics while the group collected antiques. Elsewhere, Dunkel's party encountered a lethal trap, and the chapter ended with Sense reflecting on Fern and Rienta's unusual abilities.

• Frieren ignored Fern and Rienta's Mimic Detection Magic, opened a Mimic, and had to be freed when Rienta destroyed it.
• Dunkel's party fought Gargoyles, and Reg was trapped among closing spikes until she used Sense's bottle to summon a Golem that rescued her.
• Frieren recognized Gargoyles before they awakened and found a medal in a genuine chest, which inspired Rienta to collect the mausoleum's antiques.
• Frieren led the group into another Mimic, and Rienta destroyed it before they continued underground and admired the treasures they had gathered.
• Sense told Fern that she and Rienta were exceptionally accomplished for their age, noting Rienta's self-created spells and vast mana.

Fern explained that she kept exploring magic because she enjoyed seeing Frieren and Rienta happy, while teams in the Fallen King's Mausoleum faced powerful Clones. Genau explained that the Water Mirror Demon created near-perfect physical copies, and Falsch revealed that Frieren had broken Serie's Barrier during the first exam.

• Fern told Sense that she had continued exploring magic because Frieren and Rienta's joy made her happy, and Sense decided she had chosen the right companions.
• Wirbel, Ehre, and Scharf fought off Clones of themselves after the ambushed Ehre alerted the group to concealed mages.
• Dunkel's group defeated a Clone of Laufen, then entered the Final Room and fled when the Clone of Frieren unleashed a powerful barrage.
• Genau told Falsch that the Water Mirror Demon used entrants' memories to create near-perfect Clones and explained that the mausoleum tested teamwork and self-assessment.
• Falsch asked about the broken Barrier from the first exam, and Genau identified Frieren as the one who had broken Serie's Barrier.

Übel and Lant were trapped by Übel’s Clone in the Fallen King’s Mausoleum, but Rienta’s Clone destroyed it and revealed that he could act independently. Rienta’s Clone spared them in exchange for Lant’s magic and led them toward the mausoleum’s deepest part.

• Übel and Lant reached a dead end while fleeing Übel’s Clone, and Lant explained that the Clone could imitate their abilities but likely could not speak.
• Seeing Lant’s severe injuries, Übel gave him her Escape Golem and went to retrieve his bottle from her Clone.
• Rienta’s Clone annihilated Übel’s Clone with a barrage of longswords, then proved immune to Übel’s Gaze-Binding Magic and attacks.
• An unharmed Lant arrived and recognized that Rienta’s Clone was acting independently and had been holding back against them.
• Rienta’s Clone dismissed the swords blocking their vital points, demanded Lant’s magic in exchange for sparing them, and led Übel and Lant toward the mausoleum’s deepest part.

Frieren and her companions discovered a hidden palace and mural in the King's Tomb, then reached a hall guarded by a perfect copy of Frieren. The group struggled to find a way past the Clone after Methode's Binding and Mind-Control Magic failed against Frieren.

• Frieren found a hidden wall mechanism, and she and her companions entered a secret palace containing a well-preserved mural from the great unified dynasty period.
• The four left the hidden room and found Dunkel and his companions waiting outside a hall where a duplicate of Frieren blocked the way to the deepest part of the dungeon.
• Frieren reasoned that the Clone might share a real mage's weaknesses, while Richter suggested Mind-Control or Binding Magic.
• Methode tried Binding Magic on Frieren, but it failed; Frieren murmured that Methode smelled nice, and Fern pulled her back into her arms.
• Methode also failed to use Mind-Control Magic on Frieren and suggested Aetilu might find a flaw in her defenses, though the group did not know whether the Clone had a mind.

Aetilu, Bli, and Dunst were nearly defeated by the Clone of Sense until Lant and Rienta arrived and offered to guide them deeper into the King's Tomb in exchange for spells. Rienta then unleashed a dangerous sword, leaving the group sheltered behind multiple lotuses as the hall began to shake.

• Aetilu concluded that her group could not defeat the Clone of Sense, but tried to use Mind-Control Magic after Bli and Dunst held it off; the command failed, and the Clone wounded her.
• Lant and Rienta arrived, with Rienta attacking the Clone of Sense while protecting Aetilu, Bli, and Dunst with a pale blue lotus.
• Lant explained that Rienta would guide them to the deepest part of the King's Tomb if each of them shared a spell, and Aetilu, Bli, and Dunst agreed.
• Rienta intensified his barrage of longswords until the hall began to shake, prompting Übel to warn that they could be buried alive.
• Rienta reached through a magic circle and drew out a black sword hilt; its immense mana cracked the lotus, so he formed two more lotuses to shield the group.

"Rienta" defeated the Sense Clone by combining Projection Magic and Shadow-Driving Magic, while the group outside the hall prepared to confront Frieren's Clone. Lawine revealed that the Water Mirror Demon controls the Clones and is hiding in the treasury, but Frieren's life-locked barrier blocks the way.

• "Rienta" reconstructed his spells, covered his longswords in blue light, and overwhelmed the Sense Clone.
• Frieren told the group they might have to fight her Clone, and Fern offered to kill it so they could pass the exam.
• Rienta privately challenged Fern, but accepted her plan after she said she was confident she could defeat Lady Frieren.
• Lawine and Kanne joined the group, and Lawine explained that the Water Mirror Demon controls the Clones and that its fragile true body is in the treasury.
• Dunkel confirmed the demon's mana was behind the hall door, and Frieren explained that her Clone had sealed it with a barrier that used the caster's life as its lock.

Fern revealed that Frieren briefly loses mana detection whenever she casts a spell, and the group planned to use that weakness against her Clone. Before they could set out, a seemingly friendly Clone of Rienta arrived with captured examinees and challenged Rienta’s assumption that he was a Clone.

• Fern demonstrated Frieren’s brief lapse in mana detection while casting, and the group agreed to exploit it against her Clone.
• Frieren, Fern, and Rienta prepared to fight the Clone of Frieren while the others planned to hold off the remaining Clones.
• A second Rienta arrived with Wirbel’s party and explained that he had defeated the examinees and sent Lant to persuade them to join him.
• After the second Rienta signaled that he meant no harm, he defeated the examinees without seriously injuring them and claimed their best magic as payment.
• The second Rienta teased Frieren and Fern, then asked Rienta what made him think he was a Clone.

Rienta spoke with a mysterious version of himself in his Personal Space, where they fought over whether one of them had to disappear. As the other Rienta faded away, he revealed that he carried incomplete memories from another timeline and left Rienta with questions about the Hero’s Sword and Schlacht’s letter.

• The other Rienta entered Rienta’s Personal Space and confirmed that he was another version of Rienta, though he claimed the two of them were about to disappear.
• The other Rienta proposed that one of them leave and attacked Rienta with a projected longsword; Rienta fought back until his sword broke through the other’s lotus defense.
• The other Rienta admitted defeat and explained that the sword was his, but refused to name it, then revealed he had incomplete memories from another timeline.
• The other Rienta began to dissipate, and Rienta’s healing magic only slowed the process.
• Before disappearing, the other Rienta asked why Rienta had drawn the Hero’s Sword and received Schlacht’s letter, and told him to ask the examinees for magic and say goodbye to Fern.

Rienta, Frieren, and Fern fought the Frieren Clone in the hall while the other examinees battled Clones elsewhere in the King's Tomb. After the examinees regrouped, they learned Rienta's Clone had already defeated Sense's Clone, and Übel asked what magic they planned to give Rienta.

• Rienta returned from his Personal Space and said the other Rienta had left, then reminded the examinees to give him the magic they had promised.
• Frieren led Rienta and Fern into the hall to face her Clone, while Dunkel abandoned his plan to have everyone attack together.
• Rienta supported Frieren with Rho Aias, Intangibility, and sword attacks as Frieren and Fern struck at the Clone, but the Clone repeatedly blocked their attacks.
• Frieren formed a stone giant and combined its attack with her Lightning of Destruction, yet the Clone defended against Fern's next surprise spell and Frieren expected a drawn-out battle.
• Methode helped the examinees locate and fight the remaining Clones, and Lant revealed that Rienta's Clone had already dealt with Sense's Clone.
• Übel remarked that Rienta's Clone was unusually strong, and Wirbel asked what magic they had decided to give Rienta.

Frieren, Rienta, and Fern defeated the Clone 'Frieren' and destroyed the Water Mirror Demon in the Fallen King's Mausoleum. Sense declared every examinee who reached the treasury had passed the second round, while Frieren was left stuck inside a Mimic.

• Frieren let the Clone 'Frieren' wound her, creating an opening for Rienta to unleash his longswords and Fern to attack.
• The Clone 'Frieren' survived as an upper body and knocked Fern into a wall, but Frieren struck from behind and destroyed it.
• Frieren, Rienta, and Fern entered the treasury, where Frieren shattered the Water Mirror Demon and Rienta collected most of the treasure before scattering some back.
• The Clones vanished after the Crystal Demon was killed, and the examinees gathered at the treasury.
• Sense declared that all examinees who reached the treasury had passed the second round.
• The examinees found Frieren caught in a Mimic while Fern tried to make it spit her out.

Fern argued with Frieren after Frieren suggested replacing the wand Heiter had given her, so Rienta took Frieren to Richter to see if he could repair it. Richter agreed to try, and as he worked, he apologized for calling the wand trash after noticing how carefully it had been maintained.

• Fern told Stark that she argued with Frieren because Frieren had suggested throwing away Fern’s broken wand, a gift from Heiter.
• Rienta returned from Richter’s shop with grimoires and learned that First-Class Mages could ask Serie for a spell.
• Frieren told Rienta she had made Fern angry, and Rienta offered to take her broken wand to Richter for repair.
• Richter initially refused to repair the wand, but Rienta negotiated a price and Richter agreed to try.
• While Rienta and Frieren browsed grimoires, Richter noticed the wand had been carefully maintained and apologized for calling it trash.

Fern discovered that Frieren had replaced her broken staff, and she let go of her anger as she cared for the sleeping Frieren. The next morning, Serie took over the third exam and revealed that Frieren’s mana suppression had fooled nearly everyone, before lamenting that Lernen might never get to fight her.

• Fern and Stark walked back to the inn, where Stark tried to comfort Fern and Richter revealed that Frieren and Rienta had been at his shop.
• Fern found her staff restored on her bed, remembered Heiter’s words about Frieren, and tucked the blanket around the sleeping Frieren.
• At the Continental Magic Association, Serie criticized the large number of second-test passers and announced she would proctor the third exam.
• Lernen told Serie he had recognized Frieren’s mana suppression, while Falsch said he had not noticed it.
• Serie explained that Frieren had spent her life mastering mana suppression to deceive Demons, then said Lernen might never get to fight Frieren despite having a chance to win.