Recaps

Dugu Qing and his companions defeated Macht and freed Weise, then continued north through new encounters and celebrations. The group left the Heavenly Vein Dragon after it promised to help Dugu Qing if he ever needed it.

• Norm paid for the silver deposit, and Dugu Qing divided the five thousand gold coins among the group before they answered an urgent request to investigate a ruined village in the Lufen Region.
• Dugu Qing, Frieren, Fern, and Methode pursued the demons to an abandoned fortress, where Fern fought Zorida and the group later returned to help Genau and Stark face Revolte.
• Dugu Qing killed Revolte, then traveled with the group through the Dura Sea Region and helped Frieren find Himmel’s lost diary and hear a fortune-teller’s account of Aureole.
• Frieren agreed to help Denken confront Macht in the Golden Land, and the group learned how Macht had turned Weise and its people to gold.
• Dugu Qing defeated Solitair with his newly created Sun God Magic, but Macht broke the barrier and attacked the group before Frieren and Fern killed him and Frieren restored the Golden Land.
• After recovering in Weise, Dugu Qing encountered Alde, who declared him her future husband, but Frieren, Fern, and Stark interrupted the wedding and Alde fled.
• Dugu Qing celebrated his birthday with the group, then continued north, helping a village deal with Flamme’s Chef Golem and studying its mechanism.
• Dugu Qing gained insight into Divine Heavenly Might Magic while watching the sunrise, then fed the Heavenly Vein Dragon and received its promise of help.

Frieren and Dugu Qing protected Serie from the Shadow Warriors, then traveled to Aureole and returned to find the Demon King’s forces rising. Dugu Qing became the human alliance’s leader, defeated the first Demon army at Auwest, and began preparing a route for the larger war ahead.

• Frieren traveled into the past through a Goddess’s Monument, fought beside young Himmel, and returned to the present with renewed feelings about his devotion.
• Frieren’s group entered the Imperial Capital, uncovered the Shadow Warriors’ plan to assassinate Serie, and guarded her at the National Day ball, where Dugu Qing killed Laiwei and the attackers.
• The assassination attempt triggered a political crisis as Fuleisi ordered executions and a hundred-thousand-strong army threatened the emperor, while Serie helped resolve the threat and sent Frieren’s group north by Flying Boat.
• Frieren, Dugu Qing, Fern, Stark, and Sein reached Aureole, where Frieren reunited with Himmel and Flamme before demons ambushed them on their return, and Dugu Qing received the Hero’s Holy Sword and killed Soren.
• Weilun took the Demon King’s throne and used Todd’s Transformation Magic to expand the Demon race, while Serie rallied humanity and Dugu Qing was chosen to lead the alliance against the new Demon King.
• The Demon King’s six-hundred-thousand-strong vanguard attacked Auwest, but Dugu Qing’s strategy and Serie’s gravity magic helped the coalition destroy it, and Weilun then prepared to march south with five million troops.
• Dugu Qing agreed to support Kanonie’s bid to become the Empire’s new emperor after the war, studied new magic, and moved mountains and filled a lake with sand to create a safe route for the allied army.