On the second day of the tournament, there were only the best of the best, the previous day's competition had only chosen the eight best in each category, except for the archers, who had already been chosen.
Although there were still doubts as to whether or not all the archers should be hired, Cassandra wanted to, but Zai and Celene thought it risky to hire everyone, it was better to hire those who were at least in the top ten, they thought.
But since the majority thought the opposite, they didn't insist so much.
Darius was also worried about the idea of considering the sixteen archers, because he would give them an extra prize, even though Lucian paid their salaries.
In a few days he went from being a very wealthy merchant to a bankrupt one, but all because of his lack of control over his spending. At one point he started spending all the money he was earning and ended up with a negative balance.