Next Island

After leaving Carrot and the others to continue with their own journey, Alyssia was a little hesitant over her decisions but she knew that she had to stick to what sue had said.

Carrot was very laid back and did not possess the qualities of a leader and yet she still put her in that position to test her but to also make her wake up and take a better look around herself.

With responsibility on her shoulders, she could no longer mess around and sleep as she pleases and had to work much harder to earn everyones trust.

As her number two, she needed not just the strength to keep her position but also enough trust from those beneath her.

This task given to her would either make or break her.

However compared to the New World, Paradise was a much easier place for them all to handle together.

Hopefully in times of trouble, Carrot will learn to be a little more serious about things and solve the issue right away.

The biggest issue for her right now would be the Seven Warlords, Devil Fruit users and those with a high marine ranking but offending such people would be difficult to do unless something had unknowingly put a bounty on their heads.

Even now their aliases had not received a bounty because they were affiliated with and had assisted a World Government affiliated country.

It would not be considered a crime to assist a war that even the king had approved of.

On her way Alyssia spent time with Nica assisting with modifying the generator and putting in some finishing touches after she had received some blueprints from her system skill that showed ways to improve its effectiveness.

After a couple of stops to allow a rest and resupplying of any material, the blacksmith also stopped to occasionally produce a couple of parts at one of the local blacksmiths.

Finishing the preparations the crew arrived at the calm belt not too far away from the Red Line once again and began to sail right into it.

The generator was turned on and they continued forward much more smoothly this time, even without the sea prism to stop them from being detected they would still be noticed because of the rotation of the waterwheel was much smoother than before after that and the generator had been repaired and improved.

After being improved the ship no longer caused as much if a disturbance within the water as the waterwheel pushed the ship forward so even without the assistance of Sea-prism Stone coating the ship, she believed that something like before was not going to become such a big thing.

The Kuja pirates are able to survive on the Calm Belt tjanks to their snakes ability to navigate it but also because they are strong, they also have a Conquerers Haki user as their queen to make sure that Sea Kings do not approach their ships.

After practicing her Conquerers Haki for a long time within Kano, she was beginning to further grasp the feeling of intimidation so she felt a little safer during this journey.

It was not long before they arrived back in the New World and continued along the Red Line.

They kept a certain distance to avoid crashing into it but to also avoid being fired at by those on top of it who saw her ship as hostile or bothersome.

This continued for sometime until they needed to restock the supplies again, Alyssia came to a decision and took out an Eternal Pose to begin finding a nearby island that would not cause too much trouble for her but also be good to stop by that would not take her too far away from here intended route.

Upon arriving at the civilian docks, Alyssia saw a large Marine flag along with the letter and number combinations 'G-5'.

Although this island is full of problematic and brutal marines who have no mercy towards pirates, they usually treat visitors or the locals in a way that was considered to be good if their usual behaviour was taken into account.

While resupplying everything on the ship she could not let go of this opportunity that was in front of her.

She walked by the Marine Base and continued to look around for a while, she also talked to the locals about the people that are influential or popular on the island.

Many were fans of Vergo and very quickly she gained a lot of information about him as she kept collecting skills or missing pieces of her skills from the many G-5 marines that are able to survive in the New World and hold the base right near the Red Line to stop any invaders that wished to disrupt the Navy's or World Government's control over the New World.

After gathering some information, she decided to lay low on the island and mix with the locals because she was unsure of Vergo's power compared to her own but also she did not wish for a bounty so soon.

Thanks to her animal ear hoody, she was able to lessen the unusual looks of people even if it was a little and other threats would be dealt with by the Marines.

Like clockwork, Vergo arrived to address the citizens who had many concerns like a kind hearted marine who cared for the people.

He kept up his image of the heroic and trustworthy leader until the very end, little did they know that it was all just a facade.

He had been with Doflamingo since a young age and had been under cover for about just as long within the Navy, his kind appearance really did not match up to his true self.

Alyssia had to applaud his acting, infiltration and deception skills that he had built up.

He had learned many of the skills that had been shown to be used by high ranking members of them or those specially trained by the World Government.

Although this was not exactly a place that could be considered as somewhere she had planned to go, it was somewhere that was very useful to her.

She closed her eyes while mixing in with the crowd and scanned through the list of skills and took away anything that was of a certain rank that she had or had purchased whether it be staff skills, leg martial arts or arm martial arts.

She then looked for the unique skills and smiled happily.

He may be a powerful person in the One Piece world who can give Law and Smoker a lot of trouble but his mastery over the various types of Six Styles or Six Powers may not compare to the likes of a genius like Rob Lucci who can master them all and develop a seventh power.

In the manga he was never shown to use the Paper Arts/Kami-e to show off the flexibility of his body or Storm Leg/Tempest Kick/Rankyaku to send out wind blades from his kicks but that did not mean that he did not train in it.

Rob Lucci was able to master all the powers and go beyond that stage but it seemed that Vergo had developed more towards using Iron Body/Tekkai, Shave/Soru, Air Walk/Geppo and Finger Pistol/Shigan to a much higher level to best suit his own fighting style and areas of talent.

He was built like a tank with very high endurance but also possessed two powers to move at high speeds or through the air using his feet movements which demonstrated his high agility then there was the added Finger Pistol to further display his large amount of strength and accuracy to let him kill others with a simple jab of the finger very quickly.

Although his skills did not fully fit her ideal setup she still happily purchased the basic Paper Art and Tempest Kick so that she can add everything into her future training.

She then looked at the mix of advanced and expert Iron Body, Shave and Air Walk and purchased up to the advanced mastery of each of them and after that she purchased the intermediate mastery of Finger Pistol.

After completing her task, she headed back towards her ship to begin digesting the new information.

In her initial plans, she wished to go find someone with a high mastery over the Six Powers and then purchase it from them but also acquire techniques like the Seventh Power named Six King Gun/Rakougan that is described to behave like an Impact Dial.

There was also the skill named Life Return/Seimei Kikan that greatly interested her for its ability to have excellent body control even letting her control parts of herself that she could not do before like her hair and her bodies ability to digest food or change her body shape to suit a certain fighting style.

Each of those would be considered as very high grade skills that she needed to get her hands on even if they were for different purposes other than what she was focussed on.

The Six Powers could be considered as the best of the best in terms of martial arts styles so how could she possibly miss out on them all.

Truthfully though… Alyssia was more interested in Tempest Kick, Shave, Air Walk with the addition of Iron Body and Paper Art to increase her bodies training towards a more balanced body level to not only increase her ranged abilities but also her overall movement abilities her bodies flexibility and endurance.

Although Finger Pistol may seem meaningless at first, it still would prove to be useful much later on because it can be used not just with fingers to stab or shoot air bullets but also with other body parts or weapons as they are shown being used in staff techniques, Kaku's nose is used in a similar way and hair can be manipulated using Life Return to do the same thing.

If she could find a way to get her hands on a better way of using Shigan or the skill Life Return then the option may open up to use her tail to perform it in the future.

After absorbing so much of the skills, she spent a lot of the points that she had earned but managed to still keep enough for her original goals and the points lost could easily be earned back with enough time.