Serie bans Frieren from the continental magic association and its facilities for a thousand years. Frieren calls this out as petty and I agree -- but I wouldn't take it too hard. If the CMA survives a thousand years in its current form that will be quite a feat.
And if the CMA still selects and trains war mages in an era of peace -- one wonders how long they will be part of the solution instead of part of the problem.
ETA: I just remembered a scene that touches on this. After the exams, Wirbel, the current first of the first-class mages, challenges Frieren to a duel. He is an extremely talented and powerful mage, but he didn't live in the time of heroes and thus didn't have the opportunity to make his name. History will forget him unless he does something dramatic, and the only way he can think to do it is to go down in history as Frieren's killer.
Frieren refuses his request for a duel, and tell him not to worry if history forgets him, and takes time to express her disdain for mages who know nothing but killing -- and she's right. We need warriors even in time of peace, but care must be taken to ensure we don't have too many and that they don't start fighting each other for fame and glory, causing problems when previously there were none. While there is a time for war, a mage has to room for other things besides fighting, contra serie, otherwise they'll spend all their time killing each other and inflict collateral damage on everyone around them. But that's just what someone like Serie will bring about, if she continues to promote mages solely on their talent for killing.
Serie passes everyone in the remaining interviews and apologizes to Sense, the proctor of the second test: There really was a bumper crop this year and Sense was right to pass them.
Denken -- she passes him because, rather than being stupefied by her mana, he began immediately thinking of how he would fight her. He immediately abandons the idea, but he still has some fire and ambition in him. And his talent as a military mage, is unquestioned. She passes him.
Ubel passes without comment. This isn't surprising; There's no one and nothing Ubel can't visualize herself defeating. She might even be a match for Serie herself if she could empathize with her enough to steal her powers. Still, this is why I don't like Ubel or Serie -- Ubel's a conscienceless killer, and she's the kind of person who should be under restraint at minimum, not given full privileges. At least one other mage comments as much.
As for Serie -- a person who would welcome Ubel and dismiss Frieren is not someone I would want deciding who should and' shouldn't be on the top of the mage hierarchy.
UPDATE:
Interesting trivia note
"Übel is a German word meaning "nasty", "foul", "evil" or "sick"/"sickness"."
That couldn't be foreshadowing , could it? Ubel is going to be a villain in story, though maybe not in this one. It's just possible she'll be the one to kill Serie. I have no doubt she can.
Land passes. He never was actually on the testing grounds at all ; he had sent doubles , and doubles of doubles, on his behalf. That's not even him in the room for the interview. Serie calls him on it, and reaches out to contact him back where he really is, and he is shocked at her insight. But she passes him; he has guts.
Wirbel passes. She ask him a question: "Tell me your favorite spell". He responds: "Magic is a tool for killing; I have no favorite spells."
Right answer. Pass.
Well, yes, he's a battlemage whose job is protecting the borders from demons. It's an entirely reasonable attitude for him to have. We later see him helping a woman pick up her spilled fruit while Frieren looks on. Wirbel may be a battlemage, but he got into his job fundamentally to help people, because Himmel and the party came to his town and, in addition to saving it, had done a lot of small things to help the people. It's the little things, the small kindnesses, that Himmel had loved more than any.
Like Gandalf in our earlier conversations.
And it is because he had time for small people that Wirbel is alive today.
So he is an interesting blend of both Serie's and Frieren's viewpoints. Like Serie, he is a battlemage. Like Frieren, he has time for other things besides fighting. I like that.
Methode passes, but she didn't make much of an impression on me. Doing a quick check, when she speaks to Serie she says she can think of nothing but how kawai'i Serie is. She isn't intimidated by Serie's great mana, so Serie, again, passes her. She's got the aptitude to be a mage, which this interview is about, while the previous two stages demonstrated both her talent and skill. So pass.