Heliohapt Arc

The Heliohapt Arc is the eighth story arc in the Adventure of Sinbad manga series. It focuses on Sinbad and his friends' stay in Heliohapt.

Summary
Sinbad, Ja'far, Drakon, Hinahoho and Mistoras head to the dark continent, in order to find a land for Sinbad to build a Country. On theur journey, they arrive at a Country deep lost in the desert, named Heliohapt. There they meet the local people and get to discover their culture. Sinbad is fascinated with how much the Heliohapt medicine is quite efficient and decide to form a partnership with them. The group decide to get an audience with the King of Heliohapt. They meet the current consul of the current king of Heliohapt Armakan Amun-Ra, named Narmes Titi. He then learn that Heliohapt would be pleased to start commerce with the Sindria company but then the audience get interrupted by three people, the vizier Gafra Ka, The Queen Patra Amun Ra and the priest Anubis. While in Heliohapt, Sinbad and his group learn that there is a curse inside the Kingdom. They witness a case where the curse is involved but then princess Serendine who also arrived at Heliohapt to help Sinbad showed that it wasn't the case of a curse but a murder. Sinbad then decide to meet Narmes and learn that currently there is two faction, those who supported the previous king, who wanted to let Heliohapt be an independent country and those who support the current King who want to open Heliohapt to the exterior world. Narmes is sure that the murder are the act of the Vizier Gafra Ka who just want to put another one on the throne at the place of Armankan. Narmes then proceed to explain that When the previous king died, he had two son, the first one Armankan with a secondary women, and the youngest one Sharkkan Amura-Ra that he got with the queen Patra Amun-Ra, the first wife. Since Sharkkan was the child with Patra, he was the one supposed to succeed the king but Sharkkan was too young and Armankan became the king, but Patra and Gafra are not happy with the situation and want to put Sharkkan on the throne, thus they started making up a curse to push people believing that it was because the current King policy that the people started dying. The only way to settle the conflict however was to enter the tomb of the kings, where the previous king should have written the name of the one who should really succeed him but it turns out that the tomb became a dungeon and that it was impossible to enter it. Sinbad decide to conquer the dungeoon so that the diplomatic matter can be settle. Inside the dungeon, Sinbad want conquer it quickly and try to use baal's power to make a shortcut but then he and his group get teleported in front of the Djinn master of the dungeon, Zepar the djinn of spirit and puppetry. Zepar then says that Sinbad reminds him of a king who also came meet him with many djinn, which can be interpreted as he was talking about Solomon. Zepar then proceed to explain that Sinbad will acquiert the power of the djinn but that the one that would be passing the test are his allies in match up agaisnt each other. The first one to fight are Hinahoho and Mistoras. The fight is powerful between the powerful force of Hinahoho and the accuracy and sharpness of Mistoras. In the middle of the battle, both finally link themselves with Sinbad's Djinn, making them household vessels. Hinahoho get linked with Valefor and Mistoras with baal. The fight end with the two warrior collapsing because they used too much power. The next is between Ja'far and Masrur.