Recaps

Fern joined Frieren and Lowell on their travels after studying at the Continental United Academy. Their journey took them to Sein's village, where he agreed to accompany them in search of Gorilla Warrior as they traveled toward Aureole.

• Solitär rescued Ubel and her elder sister from bandits and took them somewhere warm.
• Heiter took in the orphaned Fern, and Frieren taught her magic before Heiter died.
• Fern entered the Continental United Academy, where she met Ubel and studied under Frieren.
• Frieren and Lowell gave Fern butterfly hair ornaments for the tenth anniversary of her apprenticeship.
• Fern trained with Frieren and Lowell during their travels, and Lowell showed her his illusion spell Tsukuyomi.
• In a possible timeline, Gwenhild agreed to marry a noble to secure Iris's treatment, but Heiter healed Iris in reality.
• Lowell and Frieren recruited Sein after Lowell revealed his regrets with Tsukuyomi and Sein's brother urged him to pursue his dream.
• Sein joined the journey, and the group celebrated Fern's birthday with gifts and desserts.

Frieren, Fern, and Lowell reached Oysast, where Fern entered the First-Class Mage exam and Frieren joined her team. As the candidates fought over Stilles, Frieren’s team broke the barrier and Fern’s group defeated its opponents, while the exam continued toward its final hour.

• Frieren and Fern entered Oysast, and Fern registered for the First-Class Mage exam with Frieren’s Proof of the Holy Staff while Lowell trained with them.
• Frieren joined Rabiñe and Kanne’s team, and they struggled to catch a Stille until Frieren devised a plan to draw one to an uncontaminated pond.
• Frieren’s team captured a Stille, but Duncan’s team confronted them, with Duncan challenging Frieren and Lichta attacking Rabiñe and Kanne.
• Frieren defeated Duncan, while Rabiñe and Kanne used their prepared magic to overpower Lichta, and Frieren then broke Serie’s barrier, bringing rain and flooding the basin.
• Lanto defeated Scharf with his clone magic, and Fern exhausted Ehre with a barrage of Ordinary Attack Magic before helping Ubel defeat Wirbel.
• Wirbel later caught a Stille and brought it to his birdcage, while Fern, Ubel, and Lanto sheltered together and discussed their fighting styles.
• Duncan, Lichta, and Laufen took a Stille from two disqualified mages, while Edel lured another Stille into her cage and the remaining candidates waited as the exam neared its end.

After passing the first exam, Frieren, Fern, Lowell, and the other examinees entered Sense’s labyrinth, where the Water-Mirror Demon created replicas from their memories. The groups converged before a powerful copy of Lowell, and Frieren and Lowell’s duel grew into a three-on-three fight when replicas of both of them appeared.

• Genau announced that Frieren’s team and six others had passed the first exam, and Frieren rushed back to the inn when she could no longer sense Lowell’s mana.
• Frieren comforted Lowell through his separation distress, then later transformed herself with Lowell’s help and celebrated his birthday with a kiss.
• Sense began the second exam, explaining that candidates had to reach the tomb’s deepest part and could use golem bottles to escape at the cost of failing.
• Duncan led a group through the labyrinth, where they fought copied examinees and learned that the Water-Mirror Demon replicated intruders’ abilities and memories.
• Sense’s replica attacked Duncan’s group, and they escaped after Bly used his golem bottle, and Ubel and Lanto defeated Ubel’s replica and continued deeper.
• Frieren’s group found a Mimic, and after it swallowed Frieren, she told Fern she had hardly ever been alone for a thousand years.
• The examinees converged before a horned armored figure that Lowell recognized as a copy of his Perfect Warrior magic, and Frieren joined him in confronting it.
• Frieren and Lowell fought the copy with a stone giant, but replicas of Frieren and Lowell emerged and created a three-on-three battle.

Lowell, Frieren, and Fern passed through the First-Class Mage exam, said goodbye to their companions, and helped restore peace at Sword Village. Their journey left them heading toward Nod-Krai, with Lowell reflecting on whether people could truly change and Frieren reassuring him that he did not have to carry that burden alone.

• The examinees defeated the dungeon replicas, and Elder reached the deepest chamber to kill its guardian, allowing Sense to declare the second exam complete.
• After celebrating with old friends, Lowell reassured Frieren and shared a tender evening with her before Serie began the third exam.
• Serie interviewed the candidates and passed Frieren, Fern, Lichta, Edel, Wirbel, Duncan, Ubel, Lanto, Elder, Adonis, and Methode.
• Lairen attacked Frieren after the exam, then apologized when she reminded him that Serie remembered her disciples, and he treated Frieren, Fern, and Lowell to a meal.
• The group parted from Kanne, Rabiñe, and Ubel before traveling to Sword Village, where Frieren agreed to deal with the Mountain Lord.
• Fern helped subdue King Wolf Andrius with Purification Magic, and Lowell left him and his pack to guard the Hero’s Sword and the village.
• Lowell, Frieren, and Fern returned to Nod-Krai, met a former bandit who had changed his life, and shared a meal with Linié and Lupa.
• Lowell admitted he was tired and afraid that sparing evildoers might cause future suffering, and Frieren comforted him by promising to stop anyone he spared from harming others.