Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Vol. 11 — Manga Raw / Buy Official

The northern plateau stretch stacks up short episodes tracing memories of Himmel, sketching once more the shape of the regret Frieren has chewed on for decades: that she should have tried to know him sooner. Fern and Stark inch closer while remaining as clumsy as ever, and Frieren watches the whole thing with amused affection. Before long the party makes contact with Lernen, a mage in the emperor's direct service, and learns about Macht of the Golden Land, a Sage who is supposedly still sealed. Macht is an arch-demon who, harboring the alien wish to understand humans, turned an entire town to gold. The circumstances of those who have held him in check for years are laid out, and the volume quietly sets eerie groundwork for the golden land arc to come.