Chapter Summaries

Frieren and her companions reached Aureole, where Frieren reunited with Himmel in the Martial Realm. Himmel confessed his love but urged her to move on, and Frieren resolved to forget the past and start over.

• Frieren, Dugu Qing, Fern, Stark, and Sein activated the Stairway to Heaven as Soren led demons toward Bright Mountain.
• Frieren, Dugu Qing, and Fern entered Aureole, while Stark and Sein were stopped by a divine general for being impure of heart.
• The divine general told Frieren that Himmel, Flamme, and Heiter lived in the Martial Realm, and that Dugu Qing’s parents were not in Aureole.
• Frieren found Himmel in the Martial Realm and greeted him after a long separation.
• Himmel confessed his love for Frieren, then urged her to forget him and find happiness among the living.
• Frieren said she would forget the past and start over, then asked Himmel to scold her for her past mistakes.

Frieren and Himmel exchanged their final criticisms and put their lingering regrets to rest before parting in tears. In Aureole, Frieren, Fern, and Dugu Qing reunited with Heiter, but as Aureole prepared to separate from the human world, Frieren remembered she still needed to meet Flamme.

• Himmel poured out his hurt over Frieren’s past obliviousness and criticized her, while Frieren defended herself and their century of unrequited feelings came to an end.
• Frieren and Himmel smiled and walked away in opposite directions, both weeping as they faced their lingering feelings.
• Dugu Qing and Fern found a hungover Heiter in a tavern, and Fern recounted their adventures after his death.
• Fern asked Heiter for his blessing to be with someone she loved, leaving Dugu Qing confused about who she meant.
• Frieren joined the group, and they shared stories until the general announced that Aureole was about to ascend and ordered them to leave.
• As the group headed for the South Heavenly Gate, Frieren remembered Flamme, and the divine general allowed her to go meet her teacher before they departed.

Frieren reunited with Flamme in Aureole and heard that the realm was about to ascend, then rejoined her companions on Bright Mountain. When Soren and his demon army ambushed the group, Dugu Qing's Clear Radiance Sword shattered, but the Hero's Holy Sword flew from the Sacred Domain of Sword Village and landed in his hand.

• Flamme descended from the clouds, embraced Frieren, and asked her to recount the thousand years since her death.
• Frieren told Flamme about the Empire, the Demons, Serie, Himmel, and Dugu Qing before leaving Aureole with Dugu Qing and Fern as it began to ascend.
• Frieren, Dugu Qing, and Fern reunited with Stark and Sein, and the group descended Bright Mountain as Aureole vanished into the heavens.
• Soren led thousands of Demon soldiers in an ambush, and the four demon generals' elemental magic scattered the group and helped trap Frieren.
• Soren empowered the Demon King Sword with the four generals' mana and shattered Dugu Qing's Clear Radiance Sword with a powerful strike.
• The Hero's Holy Sword flew from the Sacred Domain of Sword Village and landed in Dugu Qing's hand just as Soren's Demon King Sword was about to strike.

Dugu Qing and his companions escaped the Demon King's Castle after killing Soren and breaking the castle barrier. Weilun seized the vacant throne and proclaimed himself Demon King, while the Saintess of the End Todd arrived with a special gift for him.

• Dugu Qing killed Soren, and he and his companions fled the Demon King's soldiers aboard Frieren's flying boat.
• Dugu Qing shattered the barrier around the Demon King's Castle, allowing the group to escape the pursuing Demons.
• After Soren's death, the four demon generals argued over who would rule the city.
• Weilun arrived with an army, forced the four generals to submit, and claimed the Demon King's throne.
• Todd approached Weilun in a wedding gown and offered him a special gift.

Todd presented Weilun with Transformation Magic that could turn animals into Demons, and he used it to unite the Demon race under his rule. After Dugu Qing and his companions discussed their plans for life after the adventure, a newly transformed Demon appeared in town, and they continued on toward the Magic City.

• Todd revealed that her Transformation Magic could transform animals into Demons, and Weilun celebrated its power to expand the Demon race.
• Todd gave Weilun a Heavenly Demon Banner that would let him command the transformed Demons, and he ordered all Demons to submit within a year.
• Dugu Qing, Frieren, Fern, Stark, and Sein discussed their plans for after the adventure while resting in a human town.
• A small fish-headed Demon appeared in a restaurant, and Dugu Qing killed it before paying for the meal.
• After resting overnight, Dugu Qing and his companions learned that Serie had returned to the Magic City and set out there by Flying Boat.

As Demons spread across the world and the Saintess of the End’s spell began turning animals and humans into Demons, Serie called humanity to unite in Auwest. Dugu Qing and his companions prepared to fight back, while Frieren investigated transformed Demons for a way to break the spell; allied forces gathered outside the city as a decisive meeting approached.

• Serie revealed that the Demons had united under a powerful new Demon King and that the Saintess of the End had cast a spell to transform animals into Demons, so Dugu Qing and his companions agreed to continue their adventure.
• Serie called for a holy war, and people and rulers across the continent responded by marching toward Auwest to join the alliance.
• Dugu Qing and Fern restrained a newly transformed feral cat while Frieren studied its cells and found structural differences that might help her discover how to break the spell.
• Serie welcomed the Kuman Khanate’s seventy thousand troops, and the Great Khan’s messenger announced that they had joined the alliance.
• Armies and organizations from across the human world gathered outside Auwest as a meeting to decide humanity’s fate drew near.

Dugu Qing was summoned to the Human Allied Army’s council, where Serie nominated him as its leader because he had drawn the Hero’s Holy Sword. Though reluctant, he accepted and began organizing humanity’s forces against the new Demon King.

• Frieren studied transformation magic and planned to test a barrier that could protect Auwest’s residents.
• Jian Ze summoned Dugu Qing to the allied forces’ meeting, where Serie proposed choosing a hero to lead humanity against the Demon King.
• Serie named Dugu Qing as her nominee, and the archbishop and faction leaders accepted him after the Hero’s Holy Sword was verified as genuine.
• After Frieren, Fern, and Serie urged him to accept, Dugu Qing took the alliance leader’s throne as the rulers and commanders pledged their support.
• Dugu Qing appointed Serie and Frieren as deputies and assigned regional patrols, anti-transformation barriers, refugee reception, and food supplies to the allied leaders.

Dugu Qing steadied the allied leaders after learning that the Demon King had destroyed the Empire and sent a six-hundred-thousand-strong vanguard toward them. After Kanonie described the Demons’ weaknesses, Dugu Qing mobilized the coalition to take up defensive positions for battle.

• A scout reported that the Demon King had destroyed the Imperial Capital and that his six-hundred-thousand-strong vanguard was only a hundred li away.
• Dugu Qing calmed the panicked leaders by pointing out that their coalition outnumbered the vanguard by two hundred thousand, and Serie reinforced their confidence with her immense mana.
• Kanonie arrived with remnants of the imperial army and recounted the Empire’s civil war, the fall of the capital, the emperor’s death, and Fuleisi’s death in an ambush.
• Kanonie explained that most Demons had little mana and limited intelligence, while monster-transformed Demons were the greater threat.
• Dugu Qing ordered Serie to use Gravity Magic to block aerial attacks and arranged the coalition’s infantry, archers, and cavalry across favorable terrain.

Serie and Dugu Qing helped the human coalition annihilate the Demon vanguard at Auwest, while the Demon King learned of the defeat and decided to lead five million Demons south himself. The chapter left the two sides preparing for a much larger confrontation.

• Steiner ordered six hundred thousand Demons to attack the human coalition at Auwest, but increased gravity grounded their flying troops and the battle dragged on until the Demons began to falter.
• Dugu Qing sent cavalry to divide and encircle the retreating Demon army as Serie and her students supported the human forces.
• Serie enlarged herself and crushed the Demons trapped in the encirclements, prompting celebrations in Auwest and a victory banquet for the coalition leaders.
• A messenger told the Demon King that Steiner's six-hundred-thousand-strong vanguard had been wiped out, and the Saintess of the End attributed the defeat to Serie's intervention.
• Weilun ordered the Demon generals to prepare for him to lead an army of five million south to fight the humans and Serie.

Dugu Qing obtained the Empire’s Light Magic in exchange for promising Kanonie a chance to reclaim its territory, then used his newly strengthened magic to clear the route for a north-south highway. The story left him and his companions continuing south as construction workers admired his power.

• Dugu Qing asked Kanonie for magic that could increase his mana, and she identified it as Light Magic and offered to teach it in exchange for becoming the Empire’s new emperor after the war.
• Dugu Qing agreed to let Kanonie lead the vanguard to retake the Empire’s former territory, and she gave him the Light Magic Grimoire.
• Dugu Qing ordered a scorched-earth policy north of Auwest and studied Enlarge Magic, Divine Heavenly Might Magic, and Light Magic while the allied army fortified its defenses.
• Dugu Qing traveled south with Frieren and Fern to clear obstacles blocking the north-south highway, while Stark stayed behind to organize and train civilian guards.
• Dugu Qing used Enlarge Magic to move three mountains, and Frieren relocated the lake’s fish before Dugu Qing filled the lake with sand to create a plain and a safe passage.

On the road back to Auwest, Dugu Qing learned Ten Thousand Great Mountains Magic while the Demon King gathered an army of eight million and prepared to use the deaths of Demons and humans to increase his mana. The battle began outside Auwest, where Dugu Qing led the allied forces’ charge against the Demons.

• Fern hinted to Dugu Qing that she liked a man who did not understand romance, but the approaching war shifted the group’s attention to the Demon King.
• After returning to Magic City, Dugu Qing studied Light Magic, received Serie’s Grimoire on Ten Thousand Great Mountains Magic, and mastered the spell.
• The Demon King’s army swelled to eight million and reached Auwest, while the allied forces grew to 1.8 million and relied on sea routes, Dugu Qing’s highway, and Serie’s food stores to maintain supplies.
• The Demon King revealed to his generals that he planned to use the bloodshed to empower his Absorption Magic, then ordered an attack along the entire front.
• Serie used Gravity Magic to control the skies as the allied forces met the Demons in battle, and Dugu Qing carved through their ranks while the Continental Magic Association’s elites reinforced the line.

Dugu Qing and Serie finally merged their mana through Light Magic, greatly boosting his power as the human alliance prepared to face the Demon King. After the battle resumed, the allies learned that Frieren’s barriers had stopped people in rear cities from being transformed into Demons, and Frieren proposed killing the Saintess of the End to stop the transformation threat.

• Dugu Qing tried to give Serie his Sun God Magic notes, but she rejected the difficult lessons and asked him to promise to conquer the divine realm instead.
• Serie crowned Dugu Qing after he swore to study magic and defeat the Demons, then merged her mana with his through Light Magic.
• Dugu Qing’s mana surged from two thousand years’ worth to ten thousand before the boost faded, and the allies rallied to pursue victory.
• Serie returned to the front lines and used Gravity Magic as the Demon army attacked again.
• The Blade Knights’ commander told Dugu Qing that Frieren’s Barrier Magic had prevented people in rear cities from becoming Demons.
• Frieren said the alliance should kill the Saintess of the End to stop her from using Transformation Magic, and Dugu Qing agreed.

Dugu Qing faced the Demon King Weilun in the final battle, using magic borrowed from Serie and Frieren to reach one hundred thousand years of magic and sever Weilun’s head. Weilun healed by absorbing the blood spirits and the humans and Demons on the battlefield, rising to three hundred thousand years of magic as the allied forces lost hope.

• Weilun declared himself tired of war and challenged the human army to surrender as his sixty thousand years of magic filled the sky.
• Serie and Frieren transferred their magic to Dugu Qing, who then addressed the allied forces and flew out to face Weilun.
• Dugu Qing used Sun God Magic to raise his magic to one hundred thousand years and clashed with Weilun, severing the Demon King’s head.
• Weilun healed his wound, then absorbed blood spirits and the humans and Demons on the battlefield to raise his magic to three hundred thousand years.
• The Demon King’s immense power shrouded the world in darkness, and the human forces collapsed into despair.

Dugu Qing fought the Demon King, nearly piercing his heart before the Demon King’s immense mana blasted him into the battlefield, seemingly defeated. As the human coalition feared he was dead, Lavina, Frieren, Fern, and the soldiers sent him their mana and strength, and Dugu Qing began to recover in a sea of light.

• Dugu Qing used his speed to evade the Demon King’s attacks while Serie, Frieren, and Fern watched from the human army, unable to intervene.
• Dugu Qing baited the Demon King into attacking, then stabbed the Sacred Sword through his defenses and nearly reached his heart.
• The Demon King struck Dugu Qing with overwhelming mana, sending him crashing to the ground, then healed his own wound and declared victory.
• The human coalition panicked at the sight of Dugu Qing lying motionless, while Frieren and Fern struggled to believe he was dead.
• Lavina, Kanne, Ubel, Ailu, the Continental Magic Association, and a million soldiers sent their mana, strength, and courage to Dugu Qing.
• Dugu Qing’s consciousness returned as the golden light healed his wounds and restored his vitality.

Dugu Qing awakened the light holy body and fought the Demon King, ultimately crushing it beneath a hundred thousand mountains. The Demon King remained alive and struggled beneath the mountains as Dugu Qing vowed to keep grinding it down, while the Demons were defeated and the world was freed from the spell that turned animals into Demons.

• Dugu Qing absorbed the allied army's mana, awakened the light holy body, and rose to more than four hundred thousand years of mana.
• Dugu Qing shattered the Demon King's shield, but the Demon King absorbed nearby demon generals and soldiers to strengthen itself and fled toward its army.
• Dugu Qing transformed into a hundred thousand mountains and brought them down on the Demon King and its forces.
• The Demon King and the Saintess of the End struggled to hold up the mountains, but Dugu Qing's power forced them down, killing the Saintess and countless Demons.
• The Saintess of the End's death ended the magic that transformed animals into Demons, while the Demon King survived beneath the mountains and Dugu Qing continued crushing it.
• Serie, Frieren, Lavina, Kanne, Ailu, Ubel, and the allied army celebrated the Demons' defeat and the return of peace.

After the Demon King was suppressed, Serie and the others joined a campaign to eliminate Demons while Fern stayed behind to wait for Dugu Qing. Fifty years later, Dugu Qing finally defeated the Demon King and returned to Auwest, hoping to find his old companions.

• Fern chose to remain at the Hundred Thousand Mountains and wait for Dugu Qing, while Serie, Frieren, Lavina, Kanne, Ubel, and others set out to fight Demons.
• The human armies routed the Demon forces, then disbanded as the Northern Countries reclaimed the Empire's lands and began competing for power.
• Serie named Kanonie empress, Stark became Duke Lynn, and Sein was appointed bishop, while Frieren continued traveling alone and Fern waited for Dugu Qing.
• Fifty years passed, and Fern died three years before Dugu Qing emerged from the Hundred Thousand Mountains after finally killing the Demon King.
• Dugu Qing returned to Auwest, reminisced about his past adventures, and wondered how Frieren, Fern, Stark, and Sein had fared.

After spending fifty years fighting the Demon King, Dugu Qing learned that Fern had died three years earlier. He visited the home they had planned together, then fled into the forest, where he woke the next day grieving her.

• Dugu Qing celebrated his return by eating more than two hundred skewers at a barbecue restaurant.
• Dugu Qing overheard two students mention Fern and learned from the restaurant owner that she had died three years earlier.
• Dugu Qing mourned Fern and went to the courtyard house they had designed together, realizing she had built it while he ignored the outside world.
• Dugu Qing fled the house in despair and spent the night in the forest.
• Dugu Qing woke beneath a tree the next day, remembered Fern, and began crying again.

After discovering that Fern had loved him and receiving the Grimoires she left behind, Dugu Qing learned time magic that sent his consciousness forty-five years into the past. Still bound to suppress the Demon King, he created Clone Magic and sent a clone toward Fern’s home.

• Dugu Qing realized Fern had favored him since childhood and grieved that she had died without knowing he understood her feelings.
• At Fern’s former home, Xuezhi gave Dugu Qing the Grimoires and magic tools Frieren had left for him and told him Fern had died naturally of old age.
• Dugu Qing found Frieren’s marked Grimoire, Chapter of the Time Bird, and studied it for three days to learn magic that sent his consciousness into the past.
• Dugu Qing traveled forty-five years before Fern’s death and found himself still suppressing the Demon King beneath the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.
• Unable to leave his post, Dugu Qing created Clone Magic and sent a wisp of energy toward Fern’s nearby home.

Dugu Qing traveled back in time to see Fern, but she rejected his offer to stay with her and urged him to face his future. Back in the normal timeline, he resolved to find Aureole and meet Fern, then visited Serie for help.

• Dugu Qing visited Fern in the past, where she welcomed him with a meal and he revealed that he was her future self.
• Dugu Qing confessed his regret and offered to spend the rest of Fern’s life with her, but Fern rejected him and told him to return to his mission.
• Dugu Qing returned to the normal timeline and decided to find Aureole so he could meet Fern.
• Dugu Qing left Fern’s old home, traveled to the Magic City, and met Serie in the Continental Magic Association’s Supreme Hall.
• Serie greeted Dugu Qing and asked what he needed from her.

Dugu Qing searched for Aureole with purple flowers after Serie explained how to track it, then encountered the Heavenly Vein Dragon in the Wiesen Mountains. The dragon claimed to know Aureole’s location and asked for barbecue in exchange, so Dugu Qing began preparing a meal while traveling with him.

• Serie gave Dugu Qing purple flowers and advised him to search for Aureole by watching for them to react.
• Dugu Qing bought a Spatial Ring and supplies, then set out north toward the Demon King's Castle.
• In the Wiesen Mountains, Dugu Qing found that the purple flowers showed no reaction before the Heavenly Vein Dragon appeared.
• Dugu Qing asked the Heavenly Vein Dragon to help him find Aureole, and the dragon said he knew where it was but requested barbecue first.
• Dugu Qing promised the dragon a feast, flew on his back, caught fish, and began grilling them.