The second round of tests ended in the late afternoon. A total of 60 people were remaining after the screening.

Sixty was not a small number. Except for the uninhabited, barren lands, there were no bandit groups with more than one hundred members. If such large groups existed, the imperial army would be dispatched to exterminate them. As such, the bandits would form into groups of 10, at most 30 to 40, to rob passersby and mercenaries.

Therefore, even large mercenary groups had about 100 members, and they would be divided into dozens of groups to carry out the request of their employers. Ordinarily, three or four people would carry out general escorts of nobles and wealthy merchants, while anywhere from five to a dozen people would be dispatched for high-level escorts.

Most bandits and robbers would not dare approach the group with such numbers. No matter how valuable money was, it could not weigh more than their lives. There was no reason to risk getting wiped out by trying to rob a heavily-armed group.

Karl Mandy and Dos Giovanni were well aware of this fact. Accordingly, they divided the selected guards into six groups of ten. They placed more members into a single group because the business’ main focus would be high-level escorts, rather...