Fear Not The Elf Who Knows 10,000 Spells - Chapter 1

I think Luck is a physical, real thing in the world.

That in life there is this container of Luck that you get at the start of your life, and with ever bad shit that happens to you, that container fills up. Like your Karma tank.

You broke your knee as a kid? Pour in some Luck.

You lost the chance to be some famous soccer player? Pour in more Luck.

Bad relationship? Bad job? Some debt added in? Throw in another bucket of Luck.

Of course, you have to live a good life and not bitch too much lease you used up that Luck.

Then at the end, once you die and it's time to decide what your afterlife is, you can start cashing in on that saved up Luck.

Reborn in another world? Okay.

The world is the one from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End? Fantastic.

Be born in the Era of Peace, after the Hero's Party defeated the Demon King? Holy Fuck! That is Awesome!

Hell yeah, bring it on! Keep the good times coming!

"Down with the Elf Worshippers! Elves are nothing but Demons in disguise. They are an affront to the Goddess!"

"Go to hell you Anti-Elf bastard! May the Goddess bring ruin on the Anti-Elf Coalition!"

Be born in the Southern Lands that's in the middle of a civil war? ...Ffffffffffffuuuuuccckk!

God dammit, the Luck barrel emptied too soon.

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60 HPV (Hero's Party Victory)

Ten years.

Merely ten years after the death of the Hero Himmel and the world seemed to go to shit.

I couldn't even enjoy this 'Era of Peace' everyone's been talking about, because I was born only two years after Himmel's death. Tensions were already rising within the Principality during that time, and with his death, the powder keg that is the situation between The Elves Shields and the Anti-Elf Coalition, exploded.

Let's take a moment to actually explain a few things. Honestly, I was confused for a while because the anime barely touched on this crap.

The world, or honestly the continent in my opinion, is divided into three parts. This should at least be well known.

They are the Northern Lands, the Central Lands and the Southern Lands.

Colloquially however, to those who live in those places and aren't travelers, they are the Empire, the Kingdom and the Principality, respectively.

I was born in region of Anfang, in a city called Schwanz.

The place was literally at the ass end of the world. The tail end of the map.

I was born a human.

Yeeeep, can't even be a dwarf with naturally stronger body, or an elf with virtually infinite lifespan.

Nope. Normal old, ass human. Well, not old, I was only 8 years old for now. I feel like I'm 80 from the stress through.

And of course, my name probably means something basic in German. Man, I wish I learned more languages.

Now, what the heck would have an eight year old so stressed?

Why, the fucking assholes that somehow gained a lot of influence throughout the Principality (Anti-Elf Coalition), and the incompetent dumbasses that really shouldn't been failing so badly against them (Elves Shield) but they are.

How could this state of affair comes to be, you may ask?

Welp, it all started twenty years after the defeat of the Demon King. A sort of rumor, or argument between scholars, or priest or something or other.

I don't think anyone remembers the origin of it.

"Elves and Demons seem to similarly live an awfully long time, you know. If Demons evolved from monsters that mimic humans' voices, then... what if Elves evolved from monsters to mimic humans' shapes."

It was a dumb thought.

Anyone with a brain would hear this, and utterly laugh at the incredibly dumb thought.

No one could possibly be so stupid as to entertain that idea, right?

"Have you ever seen an Elf's corpse?"

Yet the idea kept circulating in academic fields.

Elves are near immortal beings, yet their numbers are so low, and they don't have a strong reproductive drive, that they are facing extinction.

So of course whether they die or old age, or due to a battle or not is anyone's guess.

Yes, of course some people who lived with elves, and saw them die either due to an accident, a monster or a demon, would point out that they did see them die, and their corpse didn't disintegrate, but those were dismissed as anecdotal, or even as fake by some scholar who supported the idea of them being side-species of Demons.  

And so the stupid idea became an argument, and the argument became a discussion.

"An elf, the Mage Frieren, was a member of the Hero's Party."

"Clearly an exception to the rule. The Good Elf."

"Elves have helped mankind for thousands of years."

"Clearly it's to cause a dependency upon them."

"The Demon King genocided the elves."  

"Enemy of my enemy doesn't mean they are our friends."

And then the idiotic discussion left the halls of the academia.

It found no fruit within the Central Lands, for that was land the Hero Himmel called home.

It was laughed out of the Northern Lands, for the Northern Branch of the Continental Magic Association, the organization made by the Great Mage Serie, an elf, host the certification exam for 1st Class Mages. The Continental Magic Association itself has formed multiple magic academies for all aspiring mages throughout the world.

But in the Southern Lands, the debate persisted.

Persisted almost unnaturally. Surely anyone looking into this situation would think, something's off.

Then the name calling started.

Elf Servants.

Elf Sycophants.

...

And worse.

Elf Worshippers.

For it Elves are Demons in disguise, then that clearly means, they are Demon Worshipers.

So in response to this, a group of people rose up to defend all elves from slander. The Elves Shield.

Rumors about them immediately started. Be it that they were corrupt, that they were secretly demon worshipers. That they support Verrückte, the one single example of an evil elf in all of history, who was eventually slain by Serie.

All because one fucking dumbass on the Elves Shield side drew poster of elves who helped humanity, and to appeal to their deeds and beauty, and added a portrait of Wicked Verrückte, without fucking checking who it was.

The elf protestors made a nuances of themselves. Be it mockeries, disruptions or what not. This lead to the Elves Shield censoring anything related to the 'Elves may be variant of Demons' discussions, which just made people more curious about it.

Then... No one knows who did it. The incident that sparked things into a rage. Into violence.

That formed the Anti-Elf Coalition.

Supposedly a member of the intellectually curious, those that were just 'truth seekers' who thought 'elves and demons shared similarities' had their home torched.

That sparked a protest, that lead to an inquisitive investigation by the Church's Southern Branch.

The investigation ruled that no one was harmed, that they couldn't find this person who's home was torched.

That lead to a violent outrage by the "victims" which in turn lead to the Anti-Elf Coalition, and in turn they ranted that the Southern Branch of the Church had been infiltrated by elf sympathizers. Elf Worshipers.

Then one of the Elves Shield's leaders actually came out and said they did burn some rich merchant's house, because said merchant was funding the elf protests.

As I said. Fucking incompetent idiots.

The Anti-Elf Coalition were seen as the victims, the oppressed who's opinions were trampled on. All they asked was freedom to speak. All they asked was the ability to voice their theories without being attacked.

Wonderful bullshit.

Someone was funding them, empowering them. That much should be obvious to anyone.

The Prince, ruler of the Principality, ended up giving them approval to voice their ideas without censor. A sympatric fool.

Attacks between Elves Shield and the Anti-Elf Coalition continued to happen in small scale across the Southern Lands, except the Anti-Elf Coalition always delivered news of their wounds to garner sympathy.

People were generally of the opinion to 'let them speak, they're not harming anyone'. Problem is, they didn't let anyone counter their arguments, or shot their ideas down.

Insults, blackmail, violence.

And when the same is done to them, they'd cry foul.

The Prince kept allowing this. No one knew why he didn't put an end to all this.

And so, things kept simmering in a similar manner for thirty years.

The only reason why outright civil war was because of the Hero Himmel.

"Elves are another race as any other. They have good people and bad people. However, in all my life, I'm only see them being kind, wise and helpful to others, and I've known and traveled with the best of them. They have a heart that can know love. They are not Demons."

It was a simple statement.

He didn't even travel to the Southern Lands to deliver it, yet it arrived all the same.

And the words of Himmel was strong enough, that even with the Anti-Elf Coalition's bullshit, the winds were knocked out of their sails.

So their actions lessened as their voices fell to the background.

Then the Elves Shields committed their worst sin.

They did nothing.

They thought they'd won, and rested on their laurels.

So then the years passed, with some tense peace in the Southern Lands.

Then Himmel died, and the Anti-Elf Coalition resurfaced.

Well, I at least for three years to know peace. Not really though since I only grained awareness at two.

Five years after Himmel's death, the Anti-Elf Coalition appeared with a mage squad and torched Blume. A city which was a trading center, a source of news and information that spread throughout Southern Lands, burned to the ground.

Chaos erupted.

The army was deployed, except the Anti-Elf Coalition had members within it and the army was split into two.

Not half, from what I've heard it was 70/30 against the Coalition. Except due to miscommunication, the army realized too late the traitors within it, and lost a substantial amount of troops.

Regardless, while the army regrouped, the Coalition went about their acts of terror, with the Principality loyalist and the Elves Shields fighting against them, but almost always a step behind.

The Elves Shields pick up weapons and turned to violence too late in the game. They suffered a lot of losses, and the Anti-Elf Coalition were almost fanatic in going after Elf Worshipers.

They even made their own sect of the Church to legitimize their actions.

Not sure what the Church of the Goddess's reaction will be yet.

All I know is that I really want to get the fuck out of these stupid lands with their civil wars.

My name is Trenn.

A Human, an aspiring mage, and I swear to whatever god that exists in this world, I will learn magic, leave the Southern Lands, and I'll kick the ass of anyone who gets in my way.

Besides I already know what magic I want to learn.

All you need to dominate this world are two spells.

Fear not the Elf who knows 10,000 spells. Fear the Human who knows Jilwer and Reelseiden!

...Now if only I could find literally fucking anyone that could teach me those spells.

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AN: Wow. This... turned into an exposition word salad. I genuinely thought I'd be able to get into Trenn's life immediately soon, but things just kept going. Anyways, sorry if you don't like this, next one is going to be about the SI going through things right away.