Alyssia's skillset had undergone many changes after being given some insights by Chinjao as she continued to experiment a little at a time.
She did not miss out on her daily sparring needs and her usual routine of cooking and training.
Nica spent most of her time putting the finishing touches on one of the items that had been entrusted to her to complete quickly.
She walked over to Alyssia with a wooden box that had something inside. "It has been completed in time for you to go out like you have asked."
Inside was a black half mask that would cover her mouth and nose that had a breathing filter or gas mask attachment on both sides of the mouth.
At the top of the mask underneath it was attached to a lighter and thinner material that wrapped around the tip of her nose underneath the main part of the mask and continued up to her forehead.
The eye holes were fitted with a see through material that protected her eyes like a pair of goggles.
She looked at the design and she realised that perhaps she was really heading towards the direction where she would dress up as either a super hero or villain costume of some kind or a ninja related one.
The mask had many similarities to the Mortal Kombat style of masks but there was also the fact that she had been learning concealment and detection skills in Zou.
Additionally to that.. she had been learning a new technique that may end up destroying her clothes so she had to have a resistant set made to go underneath whatever she may be wearing.
After much pondering, the only design that seemed to work with her technique was the one used by Yoruichi during her fought with Aizen, although the design barely covered her legs and arms at all which left her quite exposed.
There was also the greaves that were attached to her legs at times… they were kind of just like the attachments that Yoruichi had to wear on her limbs to deal with Aizen's power as he was in the process of becoming a Vizard.
Alyssia sighed as she put on the mask while lost in thought over the direction in which she was heading towards.
After attaching it safely and seeing that it was not loose anywhere she proceeded to get dressed in a dark hoody that had been modified to fit her ears inside which made it look like one of those animal ear hoodies or coats.
She then attached a metallic looking arm guard around each forearm, a belt at her leg securing her staff parts in place with a pair of dark pants.
On her feet, she had a pair of metallic boots which she had not worn in some time now which were her own greaves that had been slightly adjusted and fixed up after they had been slightly damaged by the collision with the Sea King.
The combination of black clothing that concealed her appearance, the mask and also the metallic attachments, weapons or tools on her body made her no longer able to recognise herself anymore.
The main things that would obviously give her away would be her tail and ears but she was not overly worried about that as she headed toward the Kano Navy Port.
Unlike her usual lessons, this time Chinjao had not given many hints but when he said the location of the meeting a chill went down her back suddenly.
The only thing she could possibly be doing there would be assisting with various troubles from outside of Kano.
Now that the insides had been dealt with smoothly and various spies or affiliated people belonging to the outside had been dealt a heavy blow or been completely removed, the next step was to clean up the sea surrounding Kano.
It wasn't long before she had stepped on board the ship along with various Happo and Niho Navy ships which were being prepared to depart.
What she did not know was that recently with the participation of herself with Chinjao's influence and her various other actions in Kano, the various enemies of Kano had become even more wary of them but also herself.
They had been supplied with many weapons from unknown sources regularly to support their war efforts.
Whether it was using pirates, bandits, assassins or mercenaries to their advantage to cause damage to their enemies then they would gladly push such people towards Kano to cause problems and disrupt various things for them.
However that was the past…
Now they had been exposed and outplayed by Chinjao at every turn during this time, they knew that it would not be long until there was a counterattack.
They decided to use their various weapons that they had gained from 'Joker' and set up their own counter to Chinjao's retaliation.
After setting sail it did not take long before cannon fire began to fire among enemy ships that were approaching and many people had readied themselves for a confrontation.
Sai, Boo, Chinjao, Chichilisia and Uholisia were on board their own ships and directed their own people while Alyssia waited for the ships to draw closer.
It did not take long before people attempted to climb on board the enemies and kill each other.
Gunfire was going off one after the other, sounds of clashing weapons also followed along with the screams of dying or injured men or women.
Among them was Alyssia who had readily confronted them first, she had removed the staff from her waist already and formed the double edged scythe blade.
She began to spin it while deflecting enemy attacks and slashing at their bodies without mercy as she passed through each enemy one after another.
Her style varied at times between using her staff and deadly kicks to her enemies using her bodies abilities completely this time.
She had no need to hold back against these people because it was a time of war and the more she showed mercy and was weak willed during this time, the more her allies would suffer.
She had to reduce their burden and make sure that many of her allies return home unharmed or at least as many as she can achieve in keeping alive.
Flickering between opponent after opponent dealing deadly blows one after another, she reaped their lives so easily while dodging their attacks and any gunfire.
The battle continued to intensify when suddenly a large group of largely built people noticed the damage she was causing among the many ships that were close to each other and fighting a melee.
They all approached her with large shields and attempted to surround her but suddenly there was a click on her boots as she turned the dial on the setting to kill the average strong human.
She immediately activated her Electro and channelled it into her greaves and headed towards the first shield wielding person of the group with a very quick flash step.
She disappeared and reappeared in front of the raised shield and raised her leg quickly to clash against it with her foot.
The combination if Electro and Eight Impact Fist was smoother than previous attempts but also with the greaves regulating and disguising her use of Electro she was able to fight freely and break through the shield with ease knocking the man back into his group with great force.
His bloody corpse was revealed after his collision with the many shields behind him and the formation was disrupted too.
Alyssia calmly continued to disappear and reappear in front of each person and hit them with an Electro-Nail regardless of whether her foot landed on the shield or on their back as she appeared behind them.
Very quickly her metallic boots were beginning to stain with the blood of various pirates, mercenaries, bandits, assassins and even navy members of their own country that had been deployed to cause damage to Kano and stop their continued growth.
Although she knew that this was something that she was participating in as a result of Chinjao's lessons, she had a feeling that perhaps her presence had made all of this happen very suddenly.
With the combination of herself, Sai, Boo, Chinjao, Uholisia and Chichilisia and the Navies they had behind them, even if another Country decided to interfere with this conflict there would still be no difficulty unless various unfair tactics are used.
After a long time of fighting, many of the enemies began to quickly get to their knees and dropped their weapons to express their surrender.
The black masked figure was like a demon in their eyes and the use of martial arts, weapons and various technological tools was something they had not been prepared to handle even if they had to prepare again for this battle in another couple of years.
However the scariest part about her wasn't any of those but instead was that she was like a ghost within the battlefield.
She was able to disappear and reappear to reap lives and easily conceal herself within a crowd of enemies while avoiding many peoples line of sight and then launch a surprise attack on many others suddenly.
She was able to cause great confusion and fear within her enemies ranks just by slipping through any weak points in the formations and disrupted the rhythm of the battle with ease.
The moment one part of the battle seemed to become the central point or maelstrom where victory may be decided, she appeared and tipped the balance in her allies favour and then appeared in another location not long after to do the same at other parts where the battle was tilting slightly in their favour.
It was bad enough that they had many difficult opponents to suddenly fight off since they had not been fully prepared to face a completely full offensive but Alyssia's assistance to the battle completely made their task hopeless.
Many had lost their will to continue fighting, the ships that were in a half decent condition were brought back, the wealth and weapons were taken and the prisoners were brought back to gather information from their mouths.
On the way back, Alyssia was carefully counting the berries from the battle with a large smile on her face.