Neville

Neville is the captain of the Sunil military's B12 Defense Team. He receives Black Star's mercenaries, commands an iron defense line during the Catastrophe, and is killed while defending the city.

Biography

The Black Star Mercenary Group

Neville welcomes Han Xiao as the 1,432nd mercenary to join Sunil's defense and briefs the arrivals on the Catastrophe and Prophecy Stones. When the beast waves begin, he commands thirty B12 soldiers in NCO Class armor at the close-quarters defense line. A claw tears through his armor and disables it, but Han repairs the suit during battle and returns him to the fight. Neville later faces a Bone Armor War Elephant and witnesses the Black Star mercenaries destroy it from the sky. By the following day he has been killed in action; his shattered remains are returned to his wife, and his death leaves her to raise their young child with pension support. (Chapters 336–343 and 347–348)

Appearance and personality

The corpus gives no stable description of Neville's face or body. He speaks in a harsh, cold command tone and is characterized by an iron will, yet even he feels nervous before the charging war elephant. His conduct is disciplined and duty-bound, and his death becomes a concrete example of the cost borne by Sunil military families. (Chapters 336, 341–343, and 347–348)

Abilities and class

Neville is an experienced soldier and commander who directs a thirty-person crossfire line against the Catastrophe's beasts. He fights in NCO Class powered armor, which is damaged and repaired in the field. The corpus does not identify him as a particular Super class, give a grade, or name any personal technique. (Chapters 340–343)

Relationships

• Han Xiao: Neville receives Han's mercenary group and later depends on Han to repair his disabled armor while B12 remains under attack. (Chapters 336–343)
• B12 Defense Team: Neville commands thirty soldiers whose crossfire holds the iron defense line. They guard him when he is immobilized and continue fighting under his command after the repair. (Chapters 340–343 and 347)
• Wife and child: Neville leaves behind a grieving wife and a child only a few years old. Their names and later lives are not stated. (Chapter 348)
• Lana: Lana trained with his neighbor Neville before the battle. Neville's death becomes central to Lana's parents' attempt to dissuade their own son from volunteering. (Chapter 348)

Items

Neville wears NCO Class armor, an issued Sunil powered suit with an energy device and internal pipes. A beast penetrates the torso and disables it until Han repairs the damage. The suit's fate after Neville's death is unstated. (Chapters 341–343)