His early childhood had been a brutal, competitive regime meant to filter out and elevate the gifted and the driven. Very early on, Argenton had displayed prodigious talent for not just mastering technology, but assimilating it into his body. He was on a whole other level compared to other kids.
The state, which was the Imperial Tekvorian Federation, supplied him with the necessary resources to further his growth. He quickly became a rising star in his state, increasingly mechanizing his body.
The more he did so, the more he lost the essence of human experience, but he gained ever more power despite that. The Federation only grew more and more ruthless as one climbed the ranks of paths. Merit took a backseat to power-mongering. Entrenched pathwalkers didn't want to concede power to upstarts who were more worthy of resources and political power than they were.
