Solomon and Ishmael returned to the inn waiting for the girls to expand the situation. Not before long the girls returned from there shopping and sight seeing trip.
" hey Solomon your back what took you so long we ended up going shopping with out you" terra shouted while approaching Solomon rose follow behind. Terra walked in front of Solomon spin around and asked "soo what do you think.
"You look beautiful terra" Solomon replied
" and as for him being late he got kidnapped and I had to go free his sorry ass" Ishmael uttered with a smug look on his face teasingly messing up Solomons hair.
" if your trying to make me look worse infront of her my hair has never been my most admirable quality" Solomon jokingly replied
Rose hearing that Solomon was kidnapped rushed up to him asking him if he was ok" wait you got kidnapped by who , your not hurt too badly are you"
" I'm fine rose I got an potion and got all healed up the only thing left to is this ringing in my ears" Solomon replied smiling and taping his ears
Terra breath a sigh of relief before ask the wo "alright now that we establish your ok tell us what happened"
Solomon and Ishmael explained the situation to the girl including what happened with Goliath, the two hooded figure and Ezekiel assistant.
" more ginns huh, Ishmael you got any info on what we're dealing with" terra asked
Though Ishmael wasn't whiling to give this information he came to the conclusion that if they were to have a better chance at survival against the other gins he would have to swallow his pride on this one." ginns have a minimum of two normal elements plus a special there also all ranked I'm what called an alpha the strongest the other ranks are Bata,delta and omega. The rank of the ginn is determined by strength, speed, manga output, skills in mana manipulation,strength of regeneration and combat skill".
" ok are there any weaknesses or way to buy past any of there abilities" terra asked slightly concerned at the fact that there potential opponents abilities.
" I know fire,poison, infections and radiation abilities can slow down there healing significantly once there healing is weaken beheading or a strike to heart should be fatal" Ishmael replied.
Solomon remember his fight with Goliath he felt a sense of pride that he figured out the ginns weakness mid fight.
" wait since we're asking questions what about you should your rank be lower since your power is split between me and rose" Solomon asked
" no I'm able to connect my mana with both you and rose once your both within a 100 km
Radius effectively giving me full access to my powers but still leaving both of you with delta rank levels of manna and abilities " Ishmael answered
" wait so what rank is Goliath then" Solomon asked wondering if he was one of the weaker ginns.
" Now that's what surprised me even though you're manna is at the level of a delta you were able to beat a beta level ginn so even though it pains me to say it kid your at the level of a beta " Ishmael replied
" ok we establish that much we have one alpha level and beta you think you could assess what level me and rose are on" terra asked
" terra your at the level of a lower rank alpha rose upper rank delta since her abilities are more situated for support so more long range fighting and healing would suit her while you can actually take on fighters head on" Ishmael replied.
" ah well it's not perfect but at least we got two alphas so Ishmael what are the chances of more than one rough alphas working together " terra uttered while rubbing the back of her head
" I can guarantee it" Ishmael replied
" Of course, well you know what that mean were gonna have to cute this little trip of ours short the less time we spend in one place the better Solomon did you get everything we need for the trip" terra asked
" yae, we can get back on the the road right away " Solomon replied
" all right let's get going then " terra exclaimed
The group made their way to the city gates. Terra transformed back to her dragon form every one hoped on and they were off. Solomon directed them to the shortest path to Edom explaining on the way the danger of the path things like gaint sand worms, desert dragon poison dragon, dry bone wolves etc surrounded this path. The group all came to the conclusion that this path was best since taking on a few S and A class monsters would be better than running into a group of 3 alpha ginns or more.
On the way to Edom Ishmael continued to give more info on the ginns explaining that an alpha was equal to 10 S ranks a beta 5 S ranks, delta 2 S ranks and omega 1 S rank. One alpha alone can over take a country and level a mountain range these illustrations made there decision sound even better. Since if they were to ever fight an alpha ginn in a city the damage it could cause would be catastrophic.
After hours of traveling Ishmael felt a strange presence approaching them from underground he recognize the presence as a sand worm not wanting to Wast any time he shot the sand worm with a concentrated blast of flame aiming at its beating heart. The blast pierced its armor striking its heart.
The he sand worm screamed it voice disoriented everyone making terra trip and fall at top speed Solomon grabbed rose mid fall shielding her from most of the fall everyone slammed into the ground sand scraping there skin Ishmael and rose got out with minimal injuries. While terra's left front leg was dislocated and Solomon was out cold after the back of his head was slammed full force unto the ground.
Terra screamed as the bone in her leg was visibly poking through her leg rose panic seeing Solomon out cold from the fall she immediately started to heal him and terra as fast as she could she raised her hands in the air and cast a healing ability.
Rose screamed "Dawn of the heaven" as a golden light envelope them all the ability was working the ground was being healed rapidly But before everyone could be healed a gaint posion dragon decided from the sky after hear the worms scream. Landing on terras chest bitting her in her neck effectively poisoning her.
" DAMN IT !!!!" Ishmael shouted while preparing an attack Ishmael swiped his finger forming the star of David out of flames from the pattern several chains emerge wrapping around the poison dragon draging him towards the star incinerating him as he got closer. Terra now poisoned wasn't able to keep her transformation reverting back to her humanoid form.
Sensing a more monsters heading there way Ishmael shouted at rose to carry the others to a near by sandstone cave rose grabbed Solomon and terra draging them toward the cave. Ishmael turned around seeing around 200 gaint sand worm heading there way some ranging for 1000 to 5000 meters long and 20 feet to 30 feet tall.
" DAMN IT ALL YOU BASTERDS COME ON SHOW ME WHAT YOU CAN DO !!" Ishmael screamed at the top of his lungs while beating his chest.
" AIR ARCANA ROAR OF THE ETERNAL NIGHT" screamed as a ball of air in the air the ball spanned in a 60 meter radius the the ball was then comprised into the size of a marble which fell into Ishmael's mouth. The blast of wind erupted from Ishmael mouth blowing away the worm and the sand in there direction leaves no thing but a ravine touching the surface of the earth's mantle.
Ishmael was uses most of his manna in that attack leaving him weak he stumbled toward the sand stone cave were the others were his body weak hardly able to move. Another sand worm that was approaching from the opposite side from his attack emerged from the ground ready to eat Ishmael whole
" oh f*ck off" Ishmael uttered thinking these will be his last word.
"ICE ARCANA FROST BITE " rose shouted. Ah strong gayle of ice cold wind froze the sand worm into solid ice
" Well well little girl your quite show man with those ice abilities" Ishmael said as he fell to the ground face first. Rose rushed to grab Ishmael and carried him to the cave were she began healing everyone with the little manna she had left after Ishmael used that attack. She was able to stabilize everyone but they were still out cold a terras was still poisoned with a broken leg but at least now the poison would take longer to take effect. Rose hurried and checked Solomon's bag for anti venom but he bottles were all smashed now useless.
" DMAN IT" rose shouted in frustration. She rushed to the sand worm she just froze used her abilities to create a bunch of ice spikes stabbing through the worm poison sack Daring the poison into an ice bowl she created. She carried the bowl back to the cave searching it for any heart finding a few she could use for an anti venom mixing the sand worm venom with the herbs she created a mid range anti venom that should stabilize terra for two to three more days. She feed terra the anti venom and told her to rest up finally she sealed the cave entrance with ice to keep the other monsters from finding them.