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The strongest of the Seven Sages of Destruction. Macht can transmute anything in his range into gold through his spell, Diagoldze. After one of his many victims realized he had no comprehension of their feelings and called him pitiful for it, he started to wish for coexistence with humans and began to "experiment" with them to learn, finding trouble grasping even basic human concepts and continuing to not hesitate to cause mass death and destruction regardless.

Left alive after the death of the Demon King, Macht eventually came to Weise to study humans and find a way to coexist with them. Fifty years before Frieren reached Weise, Macht turned the entire city and its people into gold and was then sealed by a massive barrier in it, though his magic slowly creeps outwards to this day.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: It is later shown right after he transmuted the entirety of Weise into gold, he was directly confronted by Serie. As she threatened him to undo the spell on the city of Weise, Macht silently looked down -- leading Serie to conclude he could not undo his spell on people and thus despite his great skill with magic he was still a monster unable to understand humans. Macht responded aggressively at this provocation to the point he immediately used Diagoldze on her; once Serie deflected it back at him and observed his ability to undo his transmutation on himself and his clothes, she once again reiterated he was a monster, and all Macht could say in response was to tell Serie to be silent.

* WouldHurtAChild: Since they have no ability to feel or even understand mercy, demons will kill children without pause, they also know for some odd reason human warriors will often sacrifice their lives to save children and exploit that by threatening and killing children. Demon children meanwhile, are just as capable and willing to kill as adult demons and the only real choice humans have is to kill them when encountered, because they will always eventually kill and eat humans.

* TheSociopath: They fit this definition pretty much perfectly. They don't share human emotions and attachments but are perfectly willing to pretend they do in order to trick people into letting them in close where they can wreak more havoc. One child demon is shown to have learned to cry for her mother to avoid being killed on the spot by humans. However, even ''they'' seem to find fitting this trope strange. She outright mentions she doesn't know ''why'' the trick works, just that it does, seeing "mother" as a "wonderful, magical word." Some demons fake their understanding to the point of appearing quite charismatic. The trope becomes {{zigzagged}} with Macht, who ''attempts'' to understand humans, but has a lot of trouble even grasping base concepts and it doesn't stop him from killing thousands and transmuting an entire city he once served into gold without batting an eye.

* LongLived: Demons are races who can live for at least hundreds of years. Aura is over 500 years old, and Qual perceived the 80 years of his prison as a short time.

* HornedHumanoid: Demons all have horns, though every one of them seems to be different, some being smoother, others being more ragged. The humanoid part also varies as some demons look nothing like humans while some, like Aura, can pass off as human.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Implied to be [[{{Telepathy}} mental magic]]. He considered Grausam, the best among the demons in this regard, to be his worst matchup. He similar had no defense when Edel probed his mind.

* SpaceMaster: Zart is a master of {{Teleportation}}. He also can teleport other objects or beings if he touches them, which is particularly dangerous in the era of Himmel's party, as flight magic is not discovered yet. Teleportation itself does not exist among humanity's magics at all, leaving them few ways to oppose it.

* TakenForGranite: His personal spell, Diagoldze, turns objects into gold. After he turned an entire city into gold, a group of first-class mages under Serie sealed him inside a barrier and trapped him there. Still, his magic is powerful enough to still creep out to the point that every 5 years someone has to expand the barrier, but as Frieren observes, the pace is slow and it is likely that he will die of old age if left there before Diagoldze takes over a significant portion of the region. It is later revealed Macht does not need to actually touch objects to turn them into gold, and he can transmute people and buildings outside of his sight or earshot.

* TakenForGranite: His personal spell, Diagoldze, turns objects into gold. After he turned an entire city into gold, a group of first-class mages under Serie sealed him inside a barrier and trapped him there. Still, his magic is powerful enough to still creep out to the point that every 5 years someone has to expand the barrier, but as Frieren observes, the pace is slow and it is likely that he will die of old age if left there before Diagoldze takes over a significant portion of the region. It is later revealed Macht does not need to actually touch objects to turn them into gold, as he can transmute people and buildings outside of his sight or earshot.

%%* UncertainDoom: Frieren says in Chapter 63 that the Hero Party actually only managed to defeat two of the Seven Sages of Destruction. Two Sages, Aura and Macht, escaped, while three were killed by the Hero of the South. Since it was mentioned in Chapter 59 that the Hero Party killed Böse, that only leaves Grausam as the other Sage that the Hero Party defeated.

* IntriguedByHumanity: Even if she believes that demons and humans are fundamentally opposed, she still spends a great deal studying their ways and appears to be genuinely impressed with their spirit and advances in magic theory.

* {{Seers}}: Schlacht possessed the power to see the future. This is why he both gave off a confident and melancholic aura, as he knew he was fated to die.

* UnskilledButStrong: Goes both ways. From a demon perspective, Macht's mastery of human magic is both useless and surprising, though Weise's lord immediately took advantage of this by appointing him as Denken's teacher. While he knows a considerable amount of basics, he's mostly reliant on Diagoldze to fight, overwhelming others either by its natural spread or the sheer weight of the golden flakes he can conjure. Diagoldze is simply ''that'' overpowered; Macht doesn't ''need'' skill to finish others off. Physically he is superhuman as well, able to fight for three days and nights without rest if he has to, even while countering the curse-reflecting magic of Mystil'zla.

* ImmuneToMindControl: Downplayed as the "immunity" is more due to how his mind interprets commands rather than the commands not working. After a few years of service to the city of Weise, Macht was given a bracelet which can control the mind of a demon. He was given two specific commands -- to not bear malice to the people of Weise and to serve their interests. Due to BlueAndOrangeMorality however, neither command particularly affects Macht (he does not comprehend malice, and "service" is a very broad concept to a demon). He's not immune to mental ''attacks'', however, as Edel easily proves and Grausam threatens.

*** A demon Frieren reminisces about thought humans would forgive her and let her live in peace with them if she gave the woman whose daughter she killed the village chief's daughter (whom she took after killing him and setting his house on fire, with the reasoning that if he was dead then his daughter would "available" for the other couple), not understanding you can't replace human life with another and hope that excuses your current actions. She quickly realizes this wasn't going to work from the crowd's reaction though.