Sousou no Frieren - Ch. 140 - The Ball

[Kuhaku63]

It is anyone's guess on who should be the most fearful at this point: Land, the shadow warriors or the readers?

 

[lovolo]

That's what Serie heavily implies here. Not sure why so many people are saying it's a death flag.

It's closer to "I'm uncertain if I'll live. So I surrounded myself with chaos agents so no one will be able to visualize the future correctly."

I can't imagine a future where Stark not jobbing.

 

[Frerichs0]

So she doesn't think she'll survive and that's why she recruited the wild cards in this operation. She really does seem to regret getting our protagonist involved.

 

[Monochrome_Scholar]

My take on this is that Serie fully believes she won't survive this, and brought along the (aside from Ubel) least confrontational members with an adverse ideology (not combat oriented) to minimize collateral damage when she gets taken out, as well as, potentially as others have said, to see if they can bring about an unexpected outcome for her. In other words, she has acknowledged the potential of her death, but has resigned herself to the whims of fate, accepting whatever outcome may pass from this.
A lot of her words and actions this chapter speak to this:
Fondly reminicing with her students which she rarely does openly
Trying to sincerely do something nice for/bond with Frieren
Talk about how her approach to magic may have been flawed/limiting
However the biggest clue for me is her asking Frieren if she can imagine a world with her dying. She asks if Frieren can imagine it, but dodges the issue of if she herself can imagine it, because she already does.

 

[Vemon]

The anime industry is stalling the best manga of the last 10 years (for me)