Serie

Biodata

Background and History

Serie is a great mage who has lived since the Mythical Era. Centuries ago, she took Flamme as a disciple after recognizing the human girl’s potential. Flamme instead devoted her life to developing and spreading human magic, pursuing a future in which everyone could use it—a dream Serie initially considered absurd 17 54 222.

Serie later directed preparations for the Continental Magic Association, despite concerns that the Empire would oppose an organization overseeing mages. In the future known to Galan, the association’s First-Class Mage Exam offers successful candidates the privilege of receiving one spell from her 3 97 125.

Appearance

Serie is short, with long golden hair and deep eyes. She wears loose white garments with wide sleeves 90 208 209.

• Hair: Golden and long enough to reach her waist 90.
• Clothing: White robes whose sleeves and hem can stir in her field of mana 90 209.
• Presence: Even without taking an offensive stance, she can exert pressure strong enough to overwhelm an experienced warrior 89.

Personality

Serie is commanding, confident and dismissive of threats to her safety. She insists that no one can stop her once she has made a decision, and she refuses to let her elderly disciple kneel or worry about her 97 98.

She values magical strength and research, and believes war encourages magic to develop. She refused her disciple’s request to defeat the Demon King, saying she would intervene only to prevent humanity from being slaughtered 55 98.

Her bluntness can conceal attachment. She calls flower-creating magic boring, yet tends flowers and remembers Flamme’s fondness for the spell. Although she initially dismissed Flamme’s dream, she later asked Galan how close it came to fulfillment 98 114 223.

Abilities and Skills

Magical power and combat

Serie commands immense mana and combines spells to fight at close range as well as at a distance 97 210.

• Her released mana created an oppressive sensation throughout Äußerst 97.
• Her Defensive Magic stopped Lancelot’s full-powered sword strike at close range 89.
• Against Rivale, she combined Defensive Magic, Body Enhancement Magic, Wound Transfer Magic and fist-strengthening magic. His punch shattered her barrier, but she had prepared three additional spells 209 210.
• She can create clones, though she says they cannot match her full strength 209.

Magic of Transfer Magic

Serie can distill a spell and its accumulated knowledge into a grimoire for another person to learn 126 129 153.

• She gave Galan Blood Manipulation Magic, including insights from nearly a century of developing the spell 126 153.
• The recipient’s mana still limits how long or effectively they can use a transferred spell 126.
• First-Class Mage Exam candidates in Galan’s future are offered a spell from Serie as a privilege 3.

Perception, detection and communication

Serie’s Perception Magic detects mana and signs of life and can also reveal a person’s essence. She used it to recognize that Galan did not belong in his current time, then used Lie Detection Magic to confirm his account 90.

• She marked Galan’s forehead with a tracking spell 91.
• Her improved telepathic magic lets Galan contact her when she is willing to answer 141.
• She detected Lia’s powerful concealed mana 141.

Healing Magic

Serie created her own Healing Magic roughly a thousand years earlier by studying a Holy Scripture for an apprentice. She used it to cure Xiuke, explaining that it was not Goddess Magic 91.

Soil and flower creation

Serie can create soil and fill it with flowers. She used the spells in her palace hall and again before Flamme’s statue, where additional magic protected the flowers from the winter cold 98 223.

Relationships

• Flamme — Serie’s first human disciple, whose ambition to spread magic differed from Serie’s expectations. Serie later asked Galan about the progress of Flamme’s dream 98 222 223.
• Frieren — Flamme’s disciple and thus Serie’s grand-disciple. When Flamme brought Frieren before her, Serie offered to grant Frieren a spell 54 213.
• Galan — A warrior displaced in time. Serie studies his circumstances, teaches him magic and warns him about threats and changes to the past; he describes them as friends and denies rumors that they are lovers 90 117 125 142 213.
• Lia — An elf whose concealed mana caught Serie’s attention. Serie considered asking her to become a disciple but left without questioning her 141.
• Amber — A talented young woman whom Serie invited to become her disciple 213.
• Elderly disciple — A revered human mage who assists Serie and asks her to intervene against the Demon King’s Army 97 98.
• Rivale — A demon warrior whom Serie defeated centuries earlier. He escaped with the Demon King’s help and later challenged her again 191 209 210.

Story Role and Major Arcs

Galan’s arrival in the past

Serie encounters Galan and recognizes that he does not belong in the era. After hearing how he touched a Goddess’s Stone Monument, she follows traces of the time disturbance and agrees to meet him in Äußerst. Before leaving, she heals Xiuke at Galan’s request and marks Galan for tracking 89 90 91.

She warns that Galan’s involvement with people in the past could affect his future. When he confronts her about the massacre of an elven settlement near Äußerst, she throws him out of the palace. Privately, she reflects that she had intended to intervene but felt compelled to stand aside, and suspects Galan is causally connected to the lost community 117 118.

Serie later gives Galan Blood Manipulation Magic to strengthen their causal link as part of her Return Magic research. She calculates that he has roughly three years left in the period 125 126 190.

The Fallen King’s Tomb

Serie sends Galan on a dungeon commission to look for relics from past eras. When Pass objects to Galan and Lia joining the team, she appears and applies pressure until he accepts them. Galan returns without relics after the party encounters dangerous fog and a Water Mirror Demon’s Copy; Serie suggests the dungeon might someday be used for trials 141 181 182.

Rivale and the association

While Serie is dealing with opposition to the Continental Magic Association, Rivale moves against Galan near Äußerst. Serie confronts Rivale, and the two exchange a devastating blow before ending the fight. Rivale remains uncertain whether he fought Serie herself or a clone 191 209 210.

Afterward, Serie warns Galan that Schlacht may target him and accepts Amber as a disciple. During the Winter Festival, she asks Galan about Flamme’s dream and creates a field of flowers before Flamme’s statue 213 223.

Heavenly Vein Dragon

Serie agrees to take Galan and Lia onto the Heavenly Vein Dragon, assigning Galan to find a particular magic stone. She provides a drawing and a map, and the pair travel aboard the dragon through a Teleportation Array at her palace 246 248.