As the Dragon Year apprentices were the best batch of apprentices in Golden Roc Fort's history, the fort was not willing to waste their lives in monthly tests anymore. It chose 50 teenagers from them to form a new organization called Little Flag Battalion, whose base was located in the south of Woodensaber Alley. Five experienced killer mentors were selected to manage this new organization. Tie Hangeng was one of them.
Teenagers in Little Flag Battalion were not killer apprentices anymore, but they were not red-belt killers either. They were brown-belt assassins, who were eligible to wear black outfits embroidered with golden rocs, though they could only wear brown belts and not red belts yet. Their basic monthly salary was 100 taels of silver, and they would be able to get bonuses when they completed their missions successfully.
Once their trial period was over, they would be able to get their red belts.