Get the category fields even if there is no post

You need to use wp_get_object_terms(). The function will get all the terms available in taxonomies based on the arguments supplied. 

wp_get_object_terms( get_the_ID(), 'category', array( 'fields' => 'slug' ) );

For more info can be found in here

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