Argent Cervantes, The Chariot

Argent Cervantes is a graduate of the **Nochian Alchemy Academy**, under the advisory and the former Lab Assistant of Lilian Weston. Currently affiliated with the Cult of Perfection after defecting from his teacher and the academy due to the constraints shot upon him. Naturally into experimentation and morally dubious researches in order to go further and to advance and to prove that he is better than those who thought him.

Adept at learning, creating and tinkering. He boasts his creating and machinery skills, three of them he named the "Ascended Fabrications"

He doesn't get along with anyone in the cult other than Aleuria Twofold, who joins in on his insanity and has been his guinea pig willingly.

His Element is **Terra** specializing in the Sub-Element **Meta**.

## Story

When he was young, Argent Cervantes showed plenty of interest in magic, tinkering and alchemy. As a child he would play pretend alchemy all alone while reading dozens of books about them. He was different from his peers. He was passionate, furious and relentless when it came to learning anything new. Everything he learned was for fun and for pushing the limits of his understanding. This helped him go further academically, the top of his class consistently and eventually he studies in the prestigious school of **Nochian Alchemy Academy**.

On his first day, Lily Weston became his professor and main advisor. He felt the passion he had for Alchemy the same way that he had for the passion of learning. He was impressed, no one had this aura and energy before. This motivated him to be better than everyone, to be noticed by his favorite teacher. Just as Argent was a relentless student, Prof. Weston was also just as relentless as a teacher. The type of teacher who would fail you. But Argent keeps catching up and passing everything she throws at the class. Eventually, he gets noticed. This inflates his ego greatly, being noticed by the one he looked up to, already knowing he is better than the entire class. Graduating class, he ranks 1 above everyone by a landslide.

Professor Weston, feeling proud of his accomplishment and her teaching. She personally asked Argent to be her personal assistant. Enthusiastically, Argent accepted it. His favorite teacher, taking him under her wing. There's so much he could learn and take in from the best teacher he has ever seen and had. It was going well, Argent was learning from her first hand and Weston had an assistant she had basically raised. But that was the problem. Weston was developing a parent-child relationship with him.

This parent-child perception of her turned into overprotection and antagonizing whatever idea Argent has, because to her it was too dangerous. Alchemy is too dangerous for her son. Argent saw this differently, he felt like he wasn't good enough, he wasn't smart enough, he wasn't on the same level as her. This destroyed the confidence he had so perfectly developed throughout his life. Led him to be more secluded and self-conscious of his own skills and competence as an Alchemist or a Tinkerer.

Sirius Vertheu, another professor at the Academy saw him moping and sad in one of the benches.

"I see that you're a bit down"

"Why's that? You feel... insecure and self-conscious"

"But... you're one of the bests, you are a genius like no one I've ever seen before"

"So much potential, and even be more"

"In a perfect world, you are the best. But people just can't see that"

"If only you could do something, something big, just so they can see what you are capable of"

Something clicked in Argent after the talk with Sirius. He knows what he can do, he knows what would hurt as an intellectual like Weston. The feeling of failure. Argent was willing to sabotage, his teacher's personal project. Sneaking into her laboratory, he rewired and shuffled chemicals on the life support of the homunculus Weston had been working on for years. The day came when Weston was so sure that this would be the moment, the first homunculus ever created, her first child.

It had failed. The devastated Weston wanting to cry, furiously threw plenty of equipment on the floor out of frustration and anger. Argent was just watching her, feeling vindicated and proud of himself. A few days later, Weston still came back to her lab for work. Her journal and some of important papers we're missing, Argent was missing. Argent hit her where it hurts, all the hard work reducing them into nothing.

## Creations

### The Ascended Fabrications

**T-Nfi** **(Type I)** - A 180 centimeter tall homunculus from his teacher's "failure" which he stole after being told to dispose it. Integrated with his own programming and completing the homunculus process, he has created the first artificial being with both machine and flesh. He improves it even further to match the strength of Aura Spirits after witnessing Julius' battle with one of his "Inferior Fabrications".

**T-Digger (Type D)** - A 500 meter long gigantic worm-like robot built to extract resources from the depths of Artesia. Withstanding direct extreme heat and extreme mana radiation. The alloy the machine is made with is a **Mana Crystal Carbon Cobalt Alloy (MC3A)** that he deems as the toughest material he has created and will be created for a long time.

**T-Wyv - (Type W)** - A dragon attached with robotic parts and prosthetics. Where it came from is unknown, but this is one of his proudest achievements as he found and controlled a dragon, deemed to be an extinct powerful ancient species. The dragon is in perpetual pain due to High Frequency Manipulation Sound Chips attached inside the dragon's earholes. **The Dragon's Curse** is a curse inflicted to those who slay dragons, he wanted to have the curse to gain more knowledge and power that the Dragons have. He took a different approach realizing he could study it before receiving the curse.

### Inferior Fabrications

Small robots (~50cm) to medium size robots (~200cm) built as cannon fodder and as meat shields. Medium sized robots are capable additions to the Cult's army along side the **Maurice Puppets**. Small robots are built to be intentionally cute and manipulate targets psychologically.

## Skills

* Advanced Metal Manipulation and Shaping
* Metal Shard Control
* Iron Filing Manipulation
* Advanced Direct Transmutation
* Advanced Direct Trans-alloying

## Special Abilities

* Calculator Core - advanced intellect and great adaptability to plenty of situations
* Resistance to intellect based attacks

## Extras

* Regular customer in Artesia's Underground Trades
* Watching and understanding people is fun, but playing with people is more fun
* Wouldn't it be cool if we were able to harness every type of power?

## About Characters

 Aleuria
 Weston I
 Weston II
 Therm
 Julius
 Grem