@PolizPolice @CrimsonxxMana There's actually a good analogy for the Soul Track situation in real military history. A musket ball from the early black powder age would have difficulty punching through reinforced cavalry cuirass of the same era. A modern steel-jacketed 5.56mm round with its hard, sharp nose would punch through the same cuirass like it isn't even there but actually needs about the same or less gunpowder energy to fire as the musket ball. Soul Track was a cheat 5.56 mm round deployed in the black powder age when nobody could build a cuirass strong enough to resist it. However, in the current time of the manga people have developed not only their own 5.56 bullets but also ceramic-backed kevlar jackets able to resist it. The jacket is actually lighter and easier to wield than the cuirass, so the 5.56 bullet that Soul Track was is now fairly useless.
Frieren didn't grow more powerful in the sense of having more mana and levels. This world clearly doesn't work that way. Instead she's more technomagically advanced at the same power level. She isn't that much more powerful than she was when traveling with Himmel, or even from when she studied under the Great Sage a thousand years ago. It's just that magic has become so much more advanced and her knowledge of it has kept pace thanks to her very nature. Fern doesn't get it yet, but what makes Frieren a great mage isn't her power level or her experience; it's her hobby of learning new spells all the time.
Also, the original plan was to keep the dragon standing still for 30 seconds, so presumably either there's a more powerful spell that would take longer to cast than Soul Track or someone needs to keep the dragon busy to prevent it from casting whatever magic defense it has. It also fits with the bullet analogy. Soul Track might have been awesome but no 5.56 bullet will ever go through a tank's armor. The dragon's problem is that Stark is a walking battleship cannon. I've said it before, but Stark isn't the new party's Eisen equivalent. He's the new Himmel; the guy destined to match up against the current equivalent of the demon lord.
Frieren didn't grow more powerful in the sense of having more mana and levels. This world clearly doesn't work that way. Instead she's more technomagically advanced at the same power level. She isn't that much more powerful than she was when traveling with Himmel, or even from when she studied under the Great Sage a thousand years ago. It's just that magic has become so much more advanced and her knowledge of it has kept pace thanks to her very nature. Fern doesn't get it yet, but what makes Frieren a great mage isn't her power level or her experience; it's her hobby of learning new spells all the time.
Also, the original plan was to keep the dragon standing still for 30 seconds, so presumably either there's a more powerful spell that would take longer to cast than Soul Track or someone needs to keep the dragon busy to prevent it from casting whatever magic defense it has. It also fits with the bullet analogy. Soul Track might have been awesome but no 5.56 bullet will ever go through a tank's armor. The dragon's problem is that Stark is a walking battleship cannon. I've said it before, but Stark isn't the new party's Eisen equivalent. He's the new Himmel; the guy destined to match up against the current equivalent of the demon lord.
