Within the snowy and ice cold island of Baldimore, several sounds a clashing between two figures continued as they moved quickly attacking and retreating from each other.
Tristan continued to gain momentum as her footsteps were very controlled and quick allowing her more room to dodge and follow up with a series of powerful punches but each one was met with an equally powerful kick or her strikes missed landing on nothing.
Alyssia looked as if she was toying with Tristan who had grown much during this time, she clearly had many opportunities to strike a finishing blow but continued to dodge and match some attacks used against her.
Despite the danger of every punch that Tristen threw out, it seemed as if she was serenely dealing with each one.
The strangest part was that her eyes were blindfolded as she was performing this feat.
A final barrage of punches were thrown quickly as she dodged every single one and then backed off again removing the blindfold. "I think that is my limit for now..."
Alyssia sounded a little disappointed and impatient but Tristan looked at her friend and sighed. "You have already improved greatly.. if anything you should be happy with your progress."
Alyssia was improving her martial arts, body stats and Haki at a monstrous speed but she was never truly satisfied even though compared to normal people or geniuses, she was already very far ahead of those within her age group.
She possessed the Eight Impact Fist, Six Powers and the Seventh, Life Return and had begun to slowly learn each of them while also working on her underwater combat.
Most of the abilities related to her leg martial arts had shown fast improvements thanks to her talents further increasing her fighting power and even finger pistol had made more progress after being adjusted to be used with her toes.
Eight impact Fists shockwave attack and the Seventh Powers impact dial like attacks were slowly being grasped as she continued but she knew that they did not just stop there, more powerful attacks could be produced with the system's skill combination feature.
Training in Iron Body and Paper Art allowed her to greatly improve her bodies endurance and flexibility but also grasp control of even the tiniest muscle in her body to better control her movements.
After training for so long her body should have bulked up in muscle mass a lot but somehow her muscles were very compact allowing her to display her full strength without sacrificing her speed and she had been eating extremely large amounts of food to assist with her training which were specially prepared but she had not seemed to have gained any weight.
Every time she seemed to put on a large amount of weight or muscle, she would continue to train in Life Return and make her body return to its ideal shape but it did not just stop there, she had also gained better control and flexibility with her tail allowing additional freedom during combat.
Her kicks could now pierce, slice and deal blunt impact damage to her enemies with ease but with the addition of her improvements to her weapons with her science, she also had made improvements to her Haki allowing her to defeat stronger opponents with greater defences.
She had been slow to grasp her Conquerors Haki better but she was slowly getting used to learning how to gain control of it.
Her Observation Haki had allowed her to dodge attacks blindfolded and occasionally attack back but that was the limit to what she could do with it right now, all that it seemed to provide her was a better awareness of her surroundings but when matched up with her Beast Instinct, she was able to gain more battlefield awareness and better reactions.
Armament Haki was improving fast but she was still having trouble with the coating stage of it, there were occasions where she would be able to grasp the feeling but was unable to keep hold of it when fighting so all she could rely on against Logia's was that she could still actually touch and attack them but could not add additional attack or defence to her attacks.
Tristan walked by her side as they walked back and examined Alyssia from head to toe. "You have grown again, this growth is actually quite scary!"
Alyssia sighed helplessly. "I originally thought I would stop at around 5"7 or something around there but it seems that my diet played a large part in this. I also did not expect to begin maturing and filling out as much as I have..."
Her original Sulong size and figure that had reached complete maturity or the character template that was on her character creation was something that she had estimated to be her bodies limitations for growth but as she continued to eat meals prepared with medicinal and attack cuisine recipes and adding Sea Kings to them and the Boin Archipelagos food, her body had kept experiencing explosive growth in strength, stamina and her body had begun to reach the final stages of maturity before she even reached seventeen years of age.
As for her current Sulong appearance, she was unaware of how it looked because she had not used it since the experiments had begun.
She had become 6 feet tall, curvy and slender with a little more growth on her chest and bottom, the black messy hair that was usually unkempt and shoulder length had grown a little longer past her shoulders and went down her back while the fringe had been neatly cut straight as it reached her eyebrows.
Even in the cold environment, she only wore some baggy light training clothes on her body and training arm and leg wraps on her hands and feet but she did not seem to be affected by the cold as if she had become used to it.
Alyssia placed her arm around her friends back and placed her hand on her shoulder as she hugged her closer rubbing her cheek against the other. "Let's go see if the patient has woken up and check on the other things."
"Garchu!" Tristan responded instinctively to her movements. "Yeah! She should be up by now."
Both of them continued walking to Dr Tsukimi's home first to eat then returned to the laboratory.