Freid Bagwa

Freid Bagwa (フリード・バグアー) was one of the secondary antagonists from the "Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest" series.

He was the supreme commander of the Demon race's army.

Appearance
Freid was an adult male with a handsome face and muscular build. Originally, he had long red hair and golden eyes. Like all Demons, Freid has swarthy red skin and pointy ears. After becoming severely injured his first encounter with Hajime Nagumo, Freid sustained massive scars all across his body.

When Fried enters the divine gate that leads to Ehit, he wears priest-like clothes. He also changes his hair color from red to white and grows a pair of white wings.

Personality
"I don’t know who you are, but you’ll pay dearly for interfering with my holy mission. God is with me. The day we finally meet will be your last. Heretics have no right to live."

- Monologue

Freid is a devoted follower of the god that the demons worship. He is very prideful of his looks, as he gets irritated when Yue calls him ugly. He gets irritated more from his humiliated scars when he got severely injured by Tio while in her dragon form. Freid is calm, collected and very confident in his abilities. While he comes off as arrogant due to being able to uses Ancient Magic, he knows the limits of his abilities and can admit when someone is stronger than him, even choosing to avoid facing them head on. He hates humans as he viewed them as an inferior species but was ordered to recruit the Hero Party or kill them if they refused. In these cases, he would uses whatever means if he can use it to destroy his enemies, whether it's through surprise attacks or taking hostages which makes Freid a coward and his tactics has made a fool of himself when his ambushed on Hajime failed to kill him even when he is injured, he can still fight leaving Freid to flee away even when gets severely injured by Tio's wrath. He even ran away from Yue after dealt him with a serious injury blow.

Freid has a bad habit of jumping to conclusions about his enemies. During the demon's invasion on Heiligh Kingdom, he mistakenly thought the reason why Yue refuses his proposal to join the demon side was because he thought she was a champion of Ehit. He further mistakenly thinks Hajime and his group cared about the Kingdom and thought he could use them as hostage against him to force Nagumo to surrender and give him the locations of the Labyrinths, which Hajime berates him for his deluded thinking as revealed that he and his companions never cared for the Heiligh Kingdom as well as they never have any allegiances with both the Kingdom or the so-called "heroes" when he refused to give him the locations for his ignorance.

Freid cares a great deal about his fellow demons. He took the time to comforted Mikhail when he learns his lover Cattleya was killed and is angry when Yue turns his army's attacks against them. The only reason why he pulled back his force at the Heiligh Kingdom was because he didn't want to waste his brethren lives needlessly after Hajime killed 100,000 of Freid's men. He is also wishes to help his fellow demons become stronger by giving them army of powerful Monster so they could conquer the other Great Labyrinths with the end goal being to strengthen Garland and the demon race by monopolizing Ancient Magic, only to failed because of Hajime and his companions.

Like Kouki and Hiyama, Freid is very delusional due to his beliefs and would twist fact to better match his beliefs. Despite conquering two of the Great Labyrinth, he refused to believe that the gods have been manipulating all the races for their own twisted game. Even after learning that the demons god and the humans god were one and the same, he chose to believe their whole history of war was a trial to prove the demons were to worthy on following Ehit, instead of accepting the truth that everything he and his fellow demons had done and died for has been for nothing but the cruel amusement of Ehit.

Biography
Freid explored the Great Labyrinth in the Frost Caverns of Schnee, and managed to acquire Ancient Magic which allowed him to control Monsters, but at the cost of losing many of his subordinates to the Labyrinth's trials. He then began to use this newfound power to tip the scales of Demons' war against humanity in the Demons' favor.

When the heroes arrived on Tortus to fight the Demons, Freid dispatched his subordinate Cattleya with a detachment of Monsters to the Great Orcus Labyrinth, where they were training, in order to either recruit or kill them, as well as to obtain the Ancient Magic it contained in the process. However, Cattleya ad her Monsters were killed thanks to the unexpected appearance of Hajime Nagumo and his party.

When the news Cattleya's death had reached Freid, his subordinate Mikhail, who was also Cattleya's fiancé, urgently approached him in order to confirm. Upon revealing that it was true, as well and explaining of their plans to kill the "Fertility Goddess" Aiko Hatayama were also foiled by Hajime and his party, Freid ordered a distraught Mikhail to train hard while he ventured to the Grand Gruen Volcano in order to obtain its Ancient Magic, after realizing that their newfound enemy was more of a threat than he thought. Freid successfully completed the Labyrinth's trial and obtained its Magic as a result. He then laid in wait for Hajime and his party to arrive at the end and nearly killed him after launching a surprise attack from his dragon mount Uranos, just as soon as they completed the Labyrinth's last trial. Despite the element of surprise on his side, Freid was forced to retreat after engaging Hajime and the others in a battle, but not before destroying the Labyrinth's keystone and forcing the volcano to erupt all of its magma. As Freid fled, he was pursued by Tio Klarus in her dragon form and sustained serious injuries from her as he escaped.

After Freid recovered from his wounds, he lead a large invasion which consisted of 100,000 Demons and Monsters to the Heiligh Kingdom and managed to easily breakthrough the kingdom's defenses thanks to the treachery of Eri Nakamura and Daisuke Hiyama. During the invasion, he and his forces confronted Yue and Shea, who wanted to get revenge on him for the injuries he inflicted on Hajime in their last encounter. Fried managed to separate the two girls using his Spacial Magic, and order many of his subordinates fight Shea (including Mikhail), while he would battle Yue. At first, Freid attempted to recruit Yue, but she claimed that her only loyalty was to Hajime. Despite Freid's best efforts, he was unable to injure her on her. Even his most powerful spell "Void Fissure" failed to inflict any real damage. However, it caused her to momentarily loss her focus long enough for Freid to have his Dragon Uranos charge in and restrain her. It reality, Yue wanted Freid to get close to her, and used her spell "Revival Reversal" to reignite all of Freid's old wounds he gained from their first battle in the volcano. Before Yue could kill Freid, he managed to escape due to his subordinates intervening and battle Yue long enough for Freid to retreat.

Freid then proceeded to met up with Hajime at the palace courtyard after the latter had killed Hiyama, and attempted to stop him by threatening to kill the people of the Heiligh Kingdom. Hajime caught Freid off guard and destroyed the majority of the demons' initial invasion forces using his sunlight convergence laser Artifact "Hyperion", without regard to the people of the Kingdom. Hajime then proceeded to insult and point out Freid's habit of assuming things on his own and bluffed and threatened to destroy the rest of his forces if he did not retreat. Due to not having any information regarding the light pillar or any other weapons Hajime may have in his possession, Fried then concluded it would be too much of a risk continuing the battle and instead opted to fall for the latter's bluff and retreated with Eri via a teleportation gate. Before departing, Freid vowed to personally kill Hajime in the name of his god Alva.

Freid retreated to his homeland Garland after his defeat. He later learned that the Demons' campaign against the Hoelscher Empire and the Beastmen nation Verbergen had also ended in failure. It was then that he was ordered to report to the king. After Freid arrived, he apologized for the demons' recent defeats under his command, believing that he failed due to underestimation his opponent. The king, however, did not blame Freid and instead claimed that his enemy was simply too powerful to defeat through their current means. The king then claimed that he received an oracle from Alva and that he would send them aid in order to defeat Hajime and capture him and his companions. Freid was about to protest the idea of bringing such powerful enemies to his homeland, but was interrupted when a pillar of light suddenly appeared in front of him. Freid believed it to be Hajime attacking them, but the king calmed him down. It was then that the Apostle Hearst appeared in front of Freid and the king and offered the aid of herself, as well as 500 more Apostles, in order to defeat Hajime.

After Hajime and his companions explored the Frost Caverns of Schnee, Freid, Eri, and the army of Apostles waited for them as they left thanks to Freid suspecting Hajime would explore the Labyrinth at some point. Initially believing that they wanted to fight, Hajime and the others prepared themselves for battle. Freid, however, claimed that he was merely offering an invitation to them to visit the Demon nation Garland at the behest of his lord, and that the Apostles accompanying him were to act as a deterrent in case Hajime decided to attack. Seeing him being accompanied by Ehit's servants, Tio asked Fried about having learned the true nature of the gods of Tortus as evil beings after having explored two Labyrinths that were created by the Liberators as a way to oppose them. Fried countered by claiming that he did not find the validity to their claims due to lack of evidence, other than what they had conveyed to him after completing the Labyrinths. He then went on by professing his devotion to Ehit, who was originally the god that humanity worshiped, and claimed everything up until now had been transpired by Ehit as a way for the Demons to prove themselves as the chosen race that deserved to stand by their god's side. Freid then once again requested that Hajime and the others to accept his invitation to visit the Demon king. When Hajime hinted as refusing to attend, Freid then opened a portal to reveal that his teacher Aiko, his former classmates, and even Princess Liliana were being held prisoners at the Demon Lord's castle. Despite this revelation, Hajime was unfazed and still expressed his refusal to attend, Freid was prepared for this response from Hajime, and revealed one more surprise to him: the imprisonment of his adopted daughter Myu and her mother Remia. This immediately infuriated Hajime and sent out a murderous aura so powerful that even Fried was scared. After confirming Myu and Remia were really imprisoned, Hajime reluctantly agreed to Freid's invitation. Freid then attempted to seize on Hajime's complacency by ordering him to disarm all of his Artifacts, as well as to shackle himself with a pair of Mana-sealing cuffs, but Hajime refused and rebutted by claiming that Freid had put himself in a dangerous position for kidnapping Myu and Remia, and that he would massacre everyone within the Demon nation, regardless of age or affiliation, if any harm came before the two of them. Eri attempted to defuse the tension by having Fried reconsider his order of having Hajime disarm, but Freid feared Hajime's power and did not want him to roam around his homeland unrestrained. It was then that the Apostle Hearst interjected and had the Demon General reconsider his demand of Hajime by promising the she and her fellow Apostles could overtake Hajime if a fight ensued. Ultimately, Freid listened to Heart's advice, and everyone traveled to Garland through his gateway.

Physical Abilities

 * Master Tactician - Freid is shown to be a capable tactician. Understanding he would lose if he tried to fight Hajime head on, he waited at the bottom of the Grand Gruen Volcano to ambush Hajime and his party, launching a powerful surprise attack as soon as they dropped their guards and failed on killing Hajime though injured the latter.
 * Enhanced Speed - Freid has sharp reflexives and excellent reaction time, capable of avoiding attacks that would've prove fatal had they landed.
 * Immense Endurance - Fried has a high level of tolerance toward extremely temperature, having managed to clear the extreme cold of the Frost Cravens of Schnee and the extreme heat of the Grand Gruen Volcano. In the latter's case, he was able to wait at final floor until Hajime and his party cleared the final trial . He took severely injury from Tio's attack in her true form. He later took yet another severely injury from Yue's attack and barely move with his injury.

Magical Abilities

 * Immense Mana - Being considered the strongest member of the demon race, Freid possess high levels of mana. After undergoing the Apostle transformation process, Freid gains the immense mana of one of God's Apostles, allowing him to perform his spells on larger scales and at higher levels than before. Despite being the strongest member of the demons, his strength is inferior to Hajime Nagumo and his party (harem).
 * Magic Master - Freid has shown to be a highly skilled magic user, even by the demons race high standards. He is the only demon to conquer Frost Caverns of Schnee, a impressive feat that allowed him to change the entire war on his own. Using Metamorphosis Magic, he was able to create a massive army of powerful Monster with a wide variety of abilities. They could even overwhelm the hero's party with minor difficulties. After gaining Spatial magic, Freid learned to make uses of it to launch surprise attacks from his enemies blind spots. After becoming a Apostle, Freid's magic prowess increased as he can utilize his Ancient Magic on much higher scale as he was capable of creating spacial barriers that couldn't be detected by Hajime's "Demon Eye" and his Metamorphosis Magic was able to enhance his Ash Dragon's to the level of power that Uranus possessed during the ambush at the Gruen Volcano and Uranus to a level that surpassed a Divine Beast.

Skills

 * Farsight - A skill that allows an increased range of vision by focusing mana into the eyes.
 * Spatial Magic - One of the "Ancient Magics" originating from the "Age of Gods", which allows the user to manipulate the space around themselves, allowing them to either bend or expand the space near them or move themselves to another space or location. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the boundary'. Meaning it can allow the user to manipulate anything, like the elimination of race-creature gap, or formulating new boundary to create a spirit world; it's possible to achieve those kinds of things.
 * Metamorphosis Magic - One of the "Ancient Magics" originating from the "Age of Gods", which allows a user to remake the form of a normal being and reform them into a different form. Normally it's used to remake a normal organism and turn it into a monster, or even manipulate the magic stone of a monster and remake them. But the true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with any organic material'. Meaning not only animals, but it's also possible to remake plants or intelligent beings, and reform their structure as needed. Even byproducts of organic material, like paper or food, can also be manipulated by this magic. The magic stone which gets created during the process is just a byproduct of the process.
 * Disintegration (Apostle Skill) - Magic that can melt almost anything.
 * All Elemental Affinity (Apostle Skill) - A skill to use all kinds of magic.
 * Spell Mending (Apostle Skill) - A skill to fuse any types of magic.
 * Mana Manipulation (Apostle Skill) - A skill to directly manipulate mana and use spells without the need of a magic circle or an incantation.

Spells/Attacks

 * Cosmic Rift - Spatial magic that connects two separate points in space and forms a gate. "I desire the end and walk the heaven and earth. My hands reach nothing and drift beyond dreams. Then I shall seek a fissure, a break in the seamless world. I break a hole in the boundaries and create a corridor into the divine realm— Cosmic Rift!"
 * Void Fissure - Spatial magic that forcibly contracts, then rapidly expands space in a certain area. The resulting shock waves caused explosions that can't be defended by regular means. "Shake the foundations of this world, which neither a dragon’s roar, nor a giant’s hammer, nor the marching of a thousand armies can hope to touch. Only the sighs of the gods may make the earth to scream out thus! Lament and despair your inevitable destruction— Void Fissure!"

Relationships

 * Ehit - Initially Freid despises Ehit due to being the god that the humans worshiped. After discovering that Alva is actually a vassal to Ehit, Fried becomes absolutely loyal to the self-styled god.
 * Alva - Freid is a devoted worshiper for the god that he people follow. He will kill anyone who disrespected or insult in the god's name.
 * Eri Nakamura - Eri was Freid's ally and partner-in-crime. Despite it, he doesn't hold a complete trust on Nakamura due to her insanity and lack of human empathy. However, he is willing to work with her due to Ehit's amusements for Nakamura. However, they both retreated due to their defeat by Hajime. During the final battle, Eri and Freid both died.
 * Hajime Nagumo - Hajime is Freid's sworn enemy after he and his party killed Cattleya and her forces. He failed on his attempted to kill Hajime (although injured him) by ambushing him using his dragon mount and with this failure, he was forced to retreat. He encountered Hajime the second time when he invaded the Heiligh Kingdom, but he underestimated Hajime and then witnessed Hajime's satellite laser destroy many of Freid's 100,000 initial force. Hajime called Freid a fool for being dimwitted and refused to give him the locations of the Labyrinths. Hajime also threatened Freid that he will destroy more of his troop if he doesn't retreat. With no other options, Freid retreated but gave a warning to Hajime, he swore revenge upon Hajime if they meet again. However, this never came to pass as in Freid along with his dragon mount Uranos were slain by Tio.
 * Yue - Freid is Yue's enemy. He asked her to join the demons side but only for him to be offended and refused his offer by calling him ugly and claimed her loyalty belongs to Hajime alone. When Freid attempted to attack Yue for insulting him, she inflicted him a serious injury blow from her attack caused Freid to retreat from her, as he is too weak against her.
 * Tio Klarus - Tio is Freid's enemy and killer. When Freid retreating from his engage with Hajime of his failure to kill him, Tio, in her dragon form, unleashed her attack and severely injured Freid. Even though he had recovered from his injuries, he bears scars from his humiliation by Tio and sworn to kill her and the others. During the final battle, Tio killed Freid and his mount Uranos.

Quotes

 * (To Hajime Nagumo): "I swear I'll make you pay for this. I swear it by my god. You'll meet your end at my hands."

Trivia

 * Freid is the reason why the humans of Tortus needed to summon the students from Japan in their war against the demons.
 * Freid's thoughts and actions after conquering the Frost Cravens of Schnee can be considered the antithesis of Hajime's after he conquered the Great Orcus Labyrinth; where Hajime learned the truth of the gods and decided he didn't want to get involved their twisted game nor aid the human race by offering his Artifacts, Fried became utterly devoted to the demon's god and uses his Age of God magic to support the demon race with his armies of monsters.
 * Freid is currently the only known Apostle hybrid that was originally a Demon.

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