Chapter Summaries

Lowell watched Himmel’s party struggle against the demon general, whose drawn ice sword nearly killed Ruby before Himmel, Eisen, and Heiter combined their strength to save her. As the general prepared a stronger attack and Himmel readied one last effort, Lowell appeared between them to stop the fight.

• Lowell judged that Himmel, Eisen, Ruby, and Heiter were struggling to break the demon general’s defense.
• The demon general drew his ice-blue sword, extinguished Ruby’s fire magic, and attacked her with a deadly thrust.
• Himmel, Eisen, and Heiter combined their powers to deflect the sword light and save Ruby, though Himmel was injured.
• The demon general prepared a stronger attack while Himmel gathered himself for a final effort.
• Lowell appeared between Himmel and the demon general and called for a time-out.

Lowell revealed to Himmel and the others that he was the former Demon King Lorenz, while explaining that Demons remained dangerous despite his own nature. He rejected Sam’s plea to reclaim the throne and was left unsure how to dissuade his former subordinate from following him.

• Lowell stepped between Himmel’s party and Sam, then revealed his mana until Sam recognized him as Demon King Lorenz.
• Ruby, Himmel, Eisen, and Heiter reacted to Lowell’s identity, and Lowell clarified that he was the former Demon King, not the ruler who had overthrown him.
• Lowell warned Ruby and the others that most Demons lacked empathy and should be treated as threats, while Sam corrected him that he had willingly left the throne.
• Ruby and Himmel affirmed their trust in Lowell, and Heiter and Eisen agreed that his past did not change their view of him.
• Sam urged Lowell to reclaim the Demon King’s throne, but Lowell refused and asked Sam to seek a peaceful life of his own.
• Sam insisted he would follow Lowell and safeguard the peaceful life he wanted, leaving Lowell at a loss for words.

Lowell accepted Sam’s offer of the demon race’s ice sword and devised a plan to use it to complete the commission for Earl Tahe before secretly returning it. After learning Sam had searched for him for nearly a thousand years, Lowell assigned him to protect Millialdai’s village and train mages for Serie, while keeping him with the group until they dealt with the earl.

• Sam offered Lowell the ice-blue sword, a lost treasure of the demon race, and Lowell proposed lending it to Earl Tahe before taking it back.
• Ruby supported Lowell’s plan, and Himmel agreed to treat it as a warning to the earl.
• Lowell learned Sam had spent nearly a thousand years searching for him and apologized, but Sam said serving Lowell was his only will.
• Lowell assigned Sam to protect Millialdai’s village and orphanage, train mages for Serie once a month, and ask for wages.
• Sam prepared to leave immediately, but Lowell told him to stay until they completed the commission and borrowed the sword from him.

Himmel returned Earl Tahe’s treasured sword and received only ten silver coins, while Lowell secretly took twenty gold coins from the Earl’s treasury. After Sam set out south to learn about human life, the party camped in the Northern Frontier, where Frieren kicked Lowell three times and called it a reward.

• Himmel returned the longsword to Earl Tahe, who dismissed the party with ten silver coins and complained about their delay.
• Lowell gave the sword back to Sam, concealed his horns with magic, and sent him south with instructions to restrain his aura and follow Millialdai or Serie’s guidance.
• Lowell explained to Ruby that Sam had chosen to steal the sword rather than attack the Earl, and that returning it had likely spared the Earl’s family from a Demon’s violence.
• Lowell revealed that he had taken twenty gold coins from Earl Tahe’s treasury, and Himmel agreed that the Earl had benefited from the bargain.
• Frieren demanded Mercury Pudding and kicked Lowell three times, calling the kicks a reward after recalling his earlier comment about Ruby.

The party explored the Echoing Labyrinth until Frieren defeated its guardian golem with a dazzling barrage of ordinary spells. She then mistook a Mimic for a treasure chest and was swallowed, leaving Lowell to rescue her.

• The party passed through the labyrinth’s first floors, with Frieren studying ancient writing while the others fought golems and traps.
• Frieren stepped ahead of Himmel and the others and trapped the guardian golem in a barrier before destroying it with a barrage of light spells.
• Ruby begged Frieren to teach her the spells, but Frieren spotted a treasure chest and rushed toward it.
• The chest turned out to be a Mimic that swallowed Frieren, and the party laughed as Lowell went to help her.

Himmel’s party crossed a jagged cliff, where Eisen stunned everyone by leaping headfirst to the ground and emerging unharmed. After the group joked about the fall and discussed training and magic, they set off again, with Frieren eagerly asking Lowell about a magic book.

• Himmel reached the ground safely by rope, while Heiter trembled as he climbed down behind him.
• Eisen jumped headfirst from the cliff, crashed into the ground, and stood up unharmed; Himmel caught Heiter when he lost his grip.
• Ruby warned Lupa not to imitate Eisen, and Lowell stopped Linié from copying his landing before explaining flight magic and the value of climbing for training.
• Heiter argued with Ruby and Frieren about his drinking, and the group laughed at his protests.
• Lowell mentioned finding an interesting magic book, prompting Frieren to praise him enthusiastically.
• The party prepared to continue their journey, and Eisen said his fighting spirit was enough when Heiter offered healing.

Lowell led the party through morning training before Ruby and Frieren caught fish for lunch with magic. After the meal, Frieren offered to teach Ruby a spell in exchange for helping test a nightmare spell.

• Lowell trained Lupa under a weakened gravity field while Linié watched and practiced the movements.
• Ruby proposed catching fish with magic, and Lowell agreed as the party continued along the forest path.
• Ruby used Waterflow Bind: Fishing Net Barrier to trap fish, while Frieren used a modified mental interference spell to make one fish float belly-up.
• The party caught enough fish, and Himmel, Heiter, Eisen, Lupa, and Linié helped prepare the meal.
• Frieren offered to teach Ruby a heart-shaped flame spell if Ruby helped test her nightmare spell, and Ruby refused.

Lowell put Lupa through brutal pain-tolerance training as she struggled through the jungle, determined to become the strongest warrior. After Heiter healed her wounds, Lowell ended the session and planned to train her in sensing mana that night.

• Ruby pleaded with Lowell to stop as thorny mana vines wounded Lupa, but Lowell explained that enduring pain was essential to a warrior's survival.
• Lupa insisted she had chosen the training and vowed to overcome the physical limits of women and humans through determination.
• Lowell demonstrated that Linié barely felt pain because Demons had dulled senses, while explaining their weakness in tempering willpower through suffering.
• Himmel cleared the party's path, Heiter stood ready to heal Lupa, and Frieren watched nearby as Lupa continued until her steps faltered.
• Lowell removed the thorns, Ruby caught Lupa, and Heiter healed her wounds; Lowell then told Lupa to rest before practicing mana sensing that night.

Eight hundred years earlier, Lowell reached Oysast too late to save Freya, killed Gramar in a rage, and mourned Freya in Frieren’s embrace. In the present, Lowell woke from the memory as a nightmare and sat beside Frieren by the campfire.

• Lowell finished purging the demons at a ruined village before Frieren told him that Gramar had attacked Oysast and that Millialdai had sent word.
• Lowell rushed to Oysast and found Freya mortally wounded after Gramar had eaten her heart.
• Lowell transformed into the Demon King and tortured Gramar with curses until the greater demon’s body and soul collapsed.
• Freya died in Lowell’s arms after asking him and Frieren to hold her, and Frieren embraced Lowell as he grieved.
• Lowell told Frieren he never wanted to fight again, and she silently embraced him.
• In the present, Lowell woke from a nightmare and shared warm honey syrup and a quiet moment beside the fire with Frieren.

In the fourth year of Himmel’s quest, the party fought Lion Boars near the border of the Demon-controlled region and continued toward the Demon King’s territory. Lowell realized their faster pace might bring them to the Demon King’s Castle within a year.

• Lupa and Linié worked together to defeat a Lion Boar, and Lowell and Frieren praised their growing strength.
• Himmel, Heiter, Eisen, and Ruby defeated more Lion Boars, while Heiter warned the party that they were nearing the Demon-controlled region.
• The party camped and shared roasted Lion Boar meat, and Lowell reflected on how his influence had changed events and accelerated their journey.
• Lowell estimated that Himmel might reach the Demon King’s Castle and face Discal within a year.

As Himmel’s party traveled deeper into Demon-controlled territory, they reaffirmed their resolve and Lupa chose to remain with Lowell. The party then encountered a powerful bare-chested man who had defeated a giant boar monster, and Himmel and Ruby introduced themselves with their rehearsed hero’s-party routine.

• Himmel remembered Eisen admitting he was afraid of the White-Horned Dragon and explaining that courage could coexist with fear.
• Himmel, Ruby, and Heiter declared that the party would keep moving toward the Demon King’s Castle.
• Lupa told Lowell she wanted to stay by his side, and Lowell hoped she could someday live freely rather than for revenge against Qual, the Corrupt Sage.
• Himmel and Eisen led the party toward a commotion and found a bare-chested man beating a giant boar monster into submission with his bare hands.
• Ruby and Himmel performed their elaborate hero’s-party introduction, leaving the burly man bewildered.

Earl Shuralk welcomed Himmel, Ruby, and their companions with a feast, then asked them to destroy the source of snow monsters coming from a dungeon in Frostwhisper Canyon. Himmel accepted, while Lowell suspected this might be his final journey alongside the party and decided to accompany them tomorrow.

• Shuralk introduced himself to the party after they found him fighting a wild boar, then invited them to his residence.
• At dinner, Shuralk offered the party a reward if they helped him with a problem, and Himmel agreed to hear his request.
• Shuralk explained that snow monsters from a dungeon in Frostwhisper Canyon repeatedly threatened nearby villages and trade routes, and that he alone survived a past expedition into its depths.
• Himmel accepted the mission to eliminate the dungeon's source, and Shuralk toasted their coming victory.
• Lowell reflected that this might be his last stop with Himmel and the others, then decided to join them on the journey to the dungeon.

Frieren’s party traveled to Frostwhisper Canyon to investigate the snow monsters and reached a labyrinth from the Unified Dynasty. Himmel led the group toward its entrance to stop the monsters at their source.

• Ruby woke Frieren and Lowell by threatening Frieren with the last nut tart and kicking Lowell out of bed.
• Lowell carried the sleepy Frieren as the party set out for Frostwhisper Canyon.
• Eisen noticed an approaching snow monster, and Himmel killed it with a single sword strike.
• The party fought off more than a dozen snow monsters on the way to the canyon.
• Frieren identified the entrances as a Unified Dynasty labyrinth with multiple passages leading to a central area.
• Himmel declared the labyrinth their objective and led the party toward its entrance.

Ruby guided the group through the maze to a roofless castle protected by a powerful anti-detection barrier, which Himmel suspected was the source of the snow monsters. Rather than enter the castle immediately, Himmel led everyone down an unexplored side passage to finish searching the floor first.

• Ruby used a mana map to guide the group around traps and through the maze while they defeated snow monsters along the way.
• The group emerged into a vast cavern and discovered a roofless castle with its iron gates standing open.
• Frieren and Ruby found that a powerful barrier prevented them from seeing the castle's interior clearly.
• Himmel concluded that the castle was likely the maze's final area and the source of the snow monsters, then proposed following their usual rule of exploring everything.
• Himmel led the group away from the castle and into an unexplored side passage, with Lowell, Frieren, Linié, and Lupa following.

The group explored an ancient castle and found little beyond ruins and relics before Frieren was swallowed by an ice Mimic and rescued by Lowell. They reached the sealed central hall, where Ruby identified the source of the ominous magic and prepared to break through the door.

• Ruby complained that the labyrinth outskirts held only broken rocks, traps, and a few finds, while Frieren happily collected ancient relics.
• Himmel led the group into the castle, where they defeated a few snow monsters and found the halls unexpectedly free of traps.
• Frieren opened an ice Mimic and was swallowed, but Lowell destroyed it and pulled her free.
• The party followed the intensifying cold to a massive sealed door beyond frozen Gargoyle statues.
• Ruby flew up to inspect the castle, identified the central hall behind the door, and launched a spell to break it open.

The Hero’s party entered Monet’s Crystal Ice Hall, where the Snow Witch attacked them with a large-scale sealing spell and put everyone except Heiter into an unnatural sleep. The snow dome continued closing around the party as Monet watched.

• Ruby blasted through the castle’s metal doors with a powerful fire spell, and Frieren noted that less costly magic could have opened them.
• Himmel led the party into the Crystal Ice Hall, where Monet introduced herself as the Snow Witch and welcomed the intruders.
• Himmel told Monet that the party had come to kill her, and Monet said many heroes had already been buried in the ice and snow.
• Monet raised the hall’s snow into a dome to seal the party inside, and Heiter recognized the spell and tried to warn Ruby.
• Ruby, Himmel, Eisen, Frieren, Lupa, Linié, and Lowell fell into a strange sleep, leaving Heiter awake as Monet watched the dome close.

Heiter resisted Grausam and Monet’s Paradise Transfer magic and fought to keep the snow dome from sealing him and his companions inside. He continued firing divine spears as the dome closed, leaving the companions trapped in dreams and Heiter still struggling.

• Grausam appeared and praised Heiter for resisting Paradise Transfer while the others remained trapped in dreams.
• Heiter attacked Monet, Grausam, and the closing snow dome with Goddess’s Three Spears, but none of the blows stopped them.
• Grausam explained that his magic would draw the sleeping companions into dreams and nightmares until their minds failed and Monet’s ice sealed their bodies.
• Heiter refused to surrender and repeatedly cast Goddess’s Three Spears, slowing the dome’s advance by a tiny amount.
• Grausam watched Heiter’s persistent resistance with brief surprise before returning to amusement as Monet and the snow dome remained unmoved.

Lowell was trapped in a powerful mental illusion and realized that brute force could not free him, so he chose to confront the temptation it created. He rejected visions of imperial glory and a meeting with Zhuge Liang, then prepared to break through the illusion and hurry to Frieren.

• Lowell identified the illusion as powerful mental magic and reasoned that an external impact or seeing through its temptation might free him.
• Lowell lowered his mental defenses, and the darkness transformed into a palace where Liu Bang sang of his rule and ambition.
• Lowell recognized Liu Bang's song as an unconvincing temptation and destroyed the illusion with an invisible blade.
• The scene shifted to Zhuge Liang inviting Lowell to join Liu Bei in supporting the Han dynasty.
• Lowell rejected the vision of Zhuge Liang and prepared to break through the illusion while worrying that Frieren might also be trapped.

Eisen experienced an illusion of celebrating victory with Ransen, Heiter, Himmel, and Ruby before accepting a peaceful end. Linié and Lowell were also caught in illusions, while Lowell recognized the trap and struggled to resist its growing pull.

• Eisen imagined Ransen praising him for defeating the Demon King, and he finally smiled and toasted their victory.
• Eisen imagined Heiter making flower wreaths with him, while Ruby and Himmel exchanged wreaths of their own.
• Eisen closed his eyes as the illusion settled into a vision of contentment, and he was lost.
• Linié imagined herself as a Demon queen while Aura reverently served her a perfect apple.
• Lowell recognized a scene with Zhuge Liang, Jiang Wei, and Liu Shan as another nested illusion, but hesitated before trying to break through.

Frieren, Lupa, and Lowell experienced illusions shaped around their deepest desires. Frieren began to break hers but was interrupted by Flamme, while Lowell’s illusion left him wavering as he tried to resist.

• Frieren recognized her cozy home with Lowell as an illusion and began gathering mana to destroy it.
• Flamme appeared and caught Frieren’s wrist, asking what she was doing.
• Lupa returned to her village in an illusion, reunited with her parents, and told them she had killed Qual with help from Lowell, Frieren, and Linié.
• Lowell experienced an illusion in which he gave a revolutionary speech and received encouragement from comrades, causing his resolve to falter as he tried to dispel it.