Sixteen

From the age of four to sixteen began her journey earning points and upgrading her system.

After she joined the Guardians as an apprentice her fame shot up and many more witnessed her duels as she began to challenge more difficult opponents day by day.

Even Duke Dogstorm had heard of her name and came to witness her fast rate of growth which helped earn her two hundred points per day along with the points from others that known her for her martial arts skills.

At first she was earning five points per duel won because of her opponents being around her age and inexperienced but as she challenged stronger opponents she started gaining more points with her five wins a day.

Around the time that she turned ten, she was already well known within Zou by many minks who have a large population which is at least over two hundred.

Around two hundred were trained warriors of the minks guard or army who took part in the raid on Wano but many others lived within the other small towns or areas while others lived within the main city.

Whale Forest is located on Zunesha's nape of the neck and nearby is the Guardian's residential district.

Kurua city is located on the back and is protected by the Musketeers but there is also the Rightrump forest, Rightflank forest, Rightflank fortress and the Deep Dark Swamp on the large elephant so it should be able to accommodate a large population of minks which could be around five or six hundred but maybe even more.

After living on Zou for so long, she eventually found out that they usually have sent out explorer teams to bring back knowledge or materials since ancient times so they are never lacking in knowledge from the outside world which made it easier to acquire materials to use during her experiments.

In a year she earned more than 18250 points just from winning five duels a day.

In the same year, she earned more than 36500 points just from Cat Viper remembering her for her martial arts, from the one point per day per person she earned more than 28470 points and from the ten points per day per person she earned at least 208050 points.

In just a year she had earned 291270 or more points just from having her fame spread and from keeping up with her five duels per day and that did not even include her achievements that she had completed and the points that she earned while being under the tutelage of Cat Viper.

After earning enough for to upgrade her system to the next rank she found herself at the stage where she would need some time to upgrade it again so she was left with the 241,270 points remaining out of the now 500,000 limit until the next upgrade.

Within a year her system had grew quickly because the place she chose was full of warriors.

Even the normal citizens who barely trained their bodies could overpower many strong opponents so Zou was probably one of the best places to start out on if she wished to quickly earn points in this specific route.

The 241,270 points was just a rough estimate that was the result of adding together the points from the five or so daily duels won and the people that had continued to remember her for her martial arts skills but that still did not include many other points that she had earned throughout the year.

She had three people under her direct tutelage who she was helping to walk on their own martial arts path so the progress they made and the achievements or fame that they had would also be a small part of her own achievements as she is their teacher or master.

There are also the points that she had earned from achieving win streaks, learning from a master and achieving impossible feats like beating someone outside of her age range.

So from the time spent earning those points in the first year she began to push most of her points into upgrading her beginner and basic skills as much as possible.

With Zhou's long history they had many records available and minks with unique skills that she could learn so anything she could not learn from purchasing them from the minks with points she spent extra time reading over the records to help increase skills like her navigation.

During her time teaching her three crew members martial arts to suit themselves she found the path for each of them.

Tristan preferred a boxing type of combat and focussed on becoming a qualified doctor.

Carrot preferred to use her hands nails to scratch and stab her opponents but also made use of her speed and ability to stay in the air to launch attacks from the air like kicks, grappling moves or even biting which showed that she had a bit of an unorthodox style of fighting.

Nica was smaller in size and not as strong as the three of them and much preferred to spend her time on her physics and mechanical engineering studies so Alyssia only taught her how to use the Flash Step and Flash Jump along with the basics of concealment and tracking but also pointed out a direction that may suit her better which was the role of the ships scientist and sniper.

The strongest out of the group quickly became Carrot after she had surpassed Tristan after a month or so of training, followed by Tristan the next strongest in the group and then Nica who was the weakest.

Their group became even stronger as time passed and each of them began to focus on their own specialty and soon after they began to gain a little of a following from the younger generation of minks that looked up to them.

As they kept busy, twelve years had already passed and Alyssia turned sixteen, on this day in another year Straw Hat Luffy will set sail on his journey and begin to recruit his crew members.

In order not to delay the journey any further after many failed experiments on making a suitable ship, Alyssia, Nica and the old man finally managed to put together a worthy mechanical ship that should be able to pass from the New World into the Grand Line.

Although it was not perfect and could still be tweaked, it was finally tested and it had been prepared to counter many unexpected situations.

The New World is too dangerous of a place to start out even for them so they need to quietly pass through without provoking any of the Four Emperors or anyone else.

For now she wishes to lay low and journey around the world while learning new skills or unique skills with her overflowing points but it was unknown if she would be able to have a smooth journey once she sets out to sea.

700,000 or more berry reward or purchase price was no small number for just one mink to appear on the slave market and there are always many mercenaries, bounty hunters or illegal groups that would wish to profit from the sale of herself or one of the minks that was joining her.