And even then Frieren would be defeated by someone who is actually interested in magic instead of her magic as a hobby. She's still the dominant one, yet in maybe a couple centuries techniques could probably be made that made the raw power obsolete. Obviously, she could adopt those principles herself but as we've seen: she's somewhat slow on that uptake. I guess if you can basically live forever new innovations come and to all the time, you don't know what trend will be the winking one. Also she IS a bit lazy.
I don't remember since it's been a bit but wasn't she the one who said it she'd be defeated it would be by a human mage during that whole thing with the mimic of her? Humans seem to be the driving force for innovation in that world.
Mortality seems to be the big overarching "theme" of the series, and how despite humans having the most fragile and short form of it they seem to make the most of it. In contrast to the elves and demons (and lesser extent dwarves, but they don't get much focus) who have all the time in the world, yet treat it so lightly that they let decades or centuries just slip by while only improving passively.
Fern is narrowing the gap between her and Frieren basically every time we see her fight. Its still a massive gap, but its still getting smaller despite the extremely short amount of time relative to Frieren's life Fern has been learning from her.
And that's someone who isn't really all that interested in magic herself, just is innately good at it and has a good teacher.
And even then Frieren would be defeated by someone who is actually interested in magic instead of her magic as a hobby. She's still the dominant one, yet in maybe a couple centuries techniques could probably be made that made the raw power obsolete. Obviously, she could adopt those principles herself but as we've seen: she's somewhat slow on that uptake. I guess if you can basically live forever new innovations come and to all the time, you don't know what trend will be the winking one. Also she IS a bit lazy.
I don't remember since it's been a bit but wasn't she the one who said it she'd be defeated it would be by a human mage during that whole thing with the mimic of her? Humans seem to be the driving force for innovation in that world.
Mortality seems to be the big overarching "theme" of the series, and how despite humans having the most fragile and short form of it they seem to make the most of it. In contrast to the elves and demons (and lesser extent dwarves, but they don't get much focus) who have all the time in the world, yet treat it so lightly that they let decades or centuries just slip by while only improving passively.
Fern is narrowing the gap between her and Frieren basically every time we see her fight. Its still a massive gap, but its still getting smaller despite the extremely short amount of time relative to Frieren's life Fern has been learning from her.
And that's someone who isn't really all that interested in magic herself, just is innately good at it and has a good teacher.