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A few months later we went to the capital for the magic knights exam, "Incredible!" Asta yelled as he ran through the city streets looking at the items on display in the stalls and shops with Yuno following close behind him.

"I thought it was bigger." I muttered under my breath looking at the extremely busy city streets with a slight hint of disappointment, "I expected some unique architecture, some special magical items but it seems the people of this world have really become too dependent on magic." I thought and took a piece of bread out of my bag before popping it in my mouth and chewing.

According to my expectations a world where the ease of magic exists would provide a great advance in the quality of life and even scientific, although not the earth scientific but the magic, so I expected to see some floating cities, magical viewing screens and much more but the most impressive thing that I was able to perceive with my magical senses when I arrived here was the barrier that covers the entire city.

"What a disappointment." I muttered as I let out a sigh and saw Asta and Yuno approaching me again, "Sister Alice, what do you plan on doing now? Are we going straight to the Knights exam or do you want to take a walk around town?" He asked me as he ate some kind of fried black snake on a skewer.

"Firstly, where did you buy that in your hand?" I questioned him while frowning at the texture of the snake skewer and Asta lifted it up as he took another bite, "I bought that from that little lady over there!" He said pointing to a little lady on the side of the street wearing a hood.

"Sister Alice?" Asta called me when he noticed that I was staring at the old lady and prepared to call me again but I held out my hand and pointed to the stadium where the magic knights exam would take place, "Go ahead for the exam, I'll be there soon. " I told the two that they looked doubtful for a moment but before they could question me an incident happened.

A man dressed in a black hoodie ran through the crowd and grabbed the bag from the old lady by the side of the road before casting a spell on himself increasing his speed, "Thief!" The old lady screamed as she pointed at the man who ran over the rooftops and without hesitation I cast a spell on myself and chased him from behind.

"Go to the Exam now! I should get there soon!" I yelled at Asta and Yuno and jumped over the roofs running after the assailant, "Should we help you?" Asta asked Yuno who shook his head, "No, let's just obey her." Yuno said and the two started to walk towards the inscription place.

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"This guy....he's fast." I thought as I ran after the thief who seemed to be getting more distance with each passing minute, "He's no ordinary thief, is he?" I muttered under my breath and at that moment I stopped and looked around.

Alice at that moment was in the city subsidies, in the favela more specifically, and the place was totally empty, it doesn't take a genius to figure out what was going to happen next, "I was arrogant huh." Alice thought and without waiting she took out her grimoire and took the Caliburn out.

The thief seeing me stop chasing him smiled under his hood and also stopped running before turning to me, at that moment several shadows from the alleys projected and surrounded me while keeping their grimoires in hand.

"Those auras, they don't look like common bandits." Alice thought as she got into fighting stance and although she knew there would be no answer back she still said, "Although I don't know who you are, you better know I won't go down without a fight." I spoke while looking coldly at the black-clad mages and planted my feet on the ground.

CRACK!

The ground creaked under the pressure of my strength and a gust of wind projected around me raising my hair, I was ready for combat and tension started to build in the air but before anything really happened a rather distinct voice came out. from above.

"Calm down, calm down, we're not going to fight alright?" A rather cheerful voice filled the room and made me look up only to see a middle aged blond man with a crown and robes a King would normally wear.

"Oh shit, it's the Wizard King!" One of the mages dressed in black said and immediately the others tried to run but without me even being able to follow white balls trapped them in the air leaving them paralyzed as if they had been frozen in time.

"I'm sorry little girl for today's problems, I'm the Wizard King Julius!" Julius said as he flew to the ground in front of me and extended his hand towards me for me to greet him, I was silent for a moment looking at him with an emotionless face leaving him a little confused.

"Tell me, why does the Wizard King sell black fried snakes on the side of the street and have his own subordinates steal it?" I questioned him while keeping my sword in my fist though now lowered, "I have no idea what you're talking about hahaha." Julius started to sweat when I questioned him and tried to give a dry laugh to hide it but when he saw me not reacting and staring at him he made a sad little face and lowered his head.

"I'm sorry! I noticed that you noticed my disguise at the fair and wanted to test it out and see your magic, and by the way could you tell me how you saw through my disguise?" Julius was a very talkative man and along with the apology he already changed his expression to that of a man obsessed with magic with eyes shining stars.

" I refuse." Alice said coldly to Julius who froze at her words, "Eh? Did she reject my request? A direct request from the Wizard King... Did she reject it?" He questioned himself internally as if he didn't understand why Alice rejected him and the latter decided to explain to him as an act of mercy, "Only a fool would tell a stranger his capabilities even if the other appears to be someone of respect." Alice said to Julius and walked past him before looking up at the sky and seeing fireworks.

"That's bad, I'm late for the exam." I muttered under my breath and without holding back this time I cast several physical boosting spells before moving forward leaving only afterimages behind and an upset Wizard King who soon recovered.

"This girl is interesting." He thought and with a snap he released his subordinates from the temporal prison before disappearing as well.

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