The preparations for the "Saint Sacrificial Ritual" that the "Witchcraft" Saint Konaukuwi had Hercules make amounted to nothing more than finding a flat patch of ground, then digging a large circle and a shallow pentagram-shaped pit inside it. A single entrenching shovel was enough to finish the whole job. There was absolutely no technical skill involved.
For the "Strength" Saint, this tiny task was utterly trivial and took only a few minutes.
As he shoveled away the last clod of earth, sand churned outside the oasis, and a mighty convoy appeared in sight.
"The main force has finally arrived!"
Li Bai ended his whispered conversation with the young master of the Paladin family of the Dragon Knight Order.
The latter had kept reminding him not to forget the "Holy Grail of Life," but Li Bai had taken it completely in stride. As long as the "Holy Grail of Life" truly existed, it could not sprout wings and fly away. They would find it sooner or later.
As for what the "Holy Grail of Life" actually looked like, not only had Li Bai never seen it, even Schwartz von Paladin, who had told him the name, had never seen it either. Everything was based on hearsay. It was simply that many people believed in it; otherwise, so many organizations would not have sent people deep into the Tar Desert to search for this blasted grail that no one had ever seen.
If there really was a grail, the Glazed Heart Li Bai had released temporarily when entering the oasis would probably have discovered it long ago. Once they dealt with the Ghoul Curse, the mutated giant beetle, and the "Armored Nightmare," they could search for it at their leisure.
The sudden sandstorm had only just ended when the Saint's Association, led