Reynold

Reynold is a Mechanic whose rare Perfect Mechanical Sense and exacting work habits make him the technical foundation of the Black Star Army's logistics department. He joins to learn from Han Xiao, advances from Grade B+ to Calamity Grade, and spends decades turning personal talent into reliable production, maintenance, training, and institutional continuity.

Biography

Mutation Disaster and the Secret War

Reynold first appears as a Grade B Mechanic attached to a small mercenary group, where he supplies weapons, repairs machinery and ships, and handles nearly all logistics. He refuses alcohol and companionship because both would cloud his thoughts, then leaves the group immediately when its captain rejects his proposal to join Black Star. The decision is characteristically precise rather than impulsive: after years of seeking danger to sharpen himself, he now wants knowledge and a path through the bottleneck separating him from Calamity Grade. (Chapters 600–602)

Han Xiao discovers that the newcomer is already a Grade B+ Mechanic with exceptional Intelligence, more than six hundred blueprints, seventeen talents, and the rare Perfect Mechanical Sense. Reynold offers long-term service in exchange for guidance, and Han Xiao accepts him as a student while placing him over a new logistics department. Sylvia is technically his senior sister despite being much weaker at the time; Reynold honors that relationship with such literal seriousness that even her attempt to tease him becomes an earnest lesson in respect. (Chapters 601–602)

His new post quickly expands beyond workshop routine. Reynold helps construct Base No. 3, designs detection equipment for the Prophecy Stone veins on Planet Sunil, supervises Sylvia's studies, and reports supply shortages across the Army's growing base network. In combat training he fields purple-blue mechanical warriors, artillery towers, shields, traps, and Mechanical Force against Han Xiao's machines. Two years of instruction bring him close to Grade A, while repeated defeats replace his initial confidence with a more humble understanding of how much remains to learn. (Chapters 621, 624, 630, and 649)

By the later Secret War period, Reynold is a Calamity Grade and one of the Army's senior officers, but his most personal request concerns Rossellin. He tells Han Xiao that their parents died when he was six, that Rossellin sent him away when he was nine, and that he survived alone before learning she had become a contested prisoner. Although he neither excuses her choices nor claims warm sibling intimacy, he asks Han Xiao to rescue her because she has suffered enough. The successful intervention reunites them and reveals the family loyalty beneath his disciplined exterior. (Chapters 697–701 and 716)

The Evolution Cube and Crimson Dynasty

As Han Xiao's position rises around the Evolution Cube, Reynold's rare talent gains strategic value beyond his own machines. Han Xiao uses temporary copies of Perfect Mechanical Sense through Reynold's Character Summon Card, applying its amplified Machinery Affinity and control to demanding construction and combat. Reynold does not personally claim credit for those achievements, but his ability becomes part of his teacher's reserve of decisive technical advantages. Their relationship has therefore reversed in one narrow respect: the student still seeks Han Xiao's knowledge, while the teacher covets and borrows the student's natural gift. (Chapters 707, 760, and 777)

Reynold's principal contribution remains institutional. When Han Xiao moves into the wider affairs of the Crimson Dynasty and the Flickering World, officers with permanent responsibilities stay in the Shattered Star Ring to maintain headquarters, and Reynold is among those left in charge. His calm logistics reports show that expansion does not suspend ordinary requirements such as ammunition, maintenance, factory output, and resource allocation. By remaining at the operational center, he makes it possible for the Army Commander and field officers to travel without leaving an unmanaged force behind. (Chapters 818 and 862)

Han Xiao also entrusts Nero's Mechanic education to him. Reynold applies the same uncompromising standard he uses on himself, driving Nero to exhaustion but helping him develop Middle Grade Mechanical Sense and a foundation strong enough for later warfare. When Han Xiao questions the severity, Reynold answers that he will not fail the assignment and promises to groom Nero into a great Mechanic. The methods are harsh and played for comedy, yet the resulting technical growth and fatigue resistance later help Nero endure sustained combat. (Chapters 862 and 973)

The Flickering World

Reynold enters the Flickering World phase as a settled senior officer rather than an explorer seeking a new identity. His brief disappointment when Han Xiao warmly greets Feidin and Nero but passes him by reveals an understated need for recognition beneath the expressionless discipline. He nevertheless continues to accept responsibility without requiring attention, joining Lagi, Sylvia, and Herlous in constructing a strategic site from Han Xiao's blueprints while the commander supervises remotely. Technical trust, more than ceremony, defines his standing. (Chapters 896 and 929)

That trust is tested when Manison launches a Virtual Intrusion against Black Star headquarters. Reynold gathers every Mechanic in the logistics department, tells them the Army Commander needs their help, and steadies subordinates intimidated by the reputation of the Mechanic Emperor. Manison had once been Reynold's own idol, but years of watching Han Xiao rise have displaced that admiration. Reynold puts loyalty into practice by organizing the department to replace Phillip in supporting calculations, increasing the artificial intelligence's available capacity while Han Xiao defends the network. (Chapter 961)

His influence reaches the next generation even when he is absent from the battlefield. During the Kunde campaign, Nero's machines suffer extreme wear and his unit endures repeated high-pressure operations. The young Mechanic discovers that Reynold's punishing training has given him a literal resistance to fatigue, allowing him to keep repairing equipment and functioning with little sleep. By this stage outsiders identify Reynold as the officer in charge of logistics and place him among the Army's many Calamity Grades; he is as likely to be found reading blueprints as displaying his rank. (Chapters 973 and 993)

Intelligent Plague and the Association

As the Army's public stature grows, Reynold continues to argue that technical competence deserves its own avenues of recognition. For the Black Star Cup, he requests events in machinery maintenance, rebuilding waste machinery, and blueprint crafting. These contests receive the tournament's lowest ratings, but Han Xiao keeps them because they function as auditions for specialists. Reynold's priorities are thus institutionally consistent: spectacle matters less to him than finding capable Mechanics and giving practical skill a route into the Army's upper ranks. (Chapters 1086 and 1094)

When the Intelligent Plague becomes an emergency, Han Xiao orders Reynold to select several Mechanics for the expedition to the Ancient Star Desert. The instruction shows that Reynold's department is not merely a factory workforce; it is the Army's pool of trusted technical personnel for a universe-scale virtual crisis. Even when he does not accompany every operation personally, he decides who has the competence to support the commander, converting a large organization into a focused team able to respond quickly. (Chapters 1094 and 1101)

Reynold also remains part of the core reporting group as Han Xiao organizes the Army's business around his growing influence and the Beyond Grade A Association. Alongside Sylvia and Herlous, he summarizes operational conditions while younger or later-joining Calamity Grades assess the commander with new respect. The scene underscores Reynold's settled function: political structures may change above him, but their strength depends on accurate reports, supplied personnel, and maintained machinery, all of which pass through the administrative system he helped build. (Chapter 1062)

Sanctum Revival and the Super Crisis

During the confrontation surrounding Sanctum Revival and the universal civilizations, Reynold is shown at work in the logistics department rather than at the center of diplomacy. The placement is significant because it demonstrates continuity during strategic upheaval. Han Xiao can focus on revived Supers, sanctions, and the Association while an officer whose reliability has been tested for decades keeps the Army's material base functioning. Rossellin's first remark on returning is that her brother works so hard she expected overwork to kill him. (Chapter 1283)

The reunion also reveals that loyalty has become part of Reynold's identity, not simply the payment promised for Han Xiao's help. He warns Rossellin that he will personally arrest her if she returns with harmful intentions and insists that she treat the Army Commander with the respect owed by a subordinate. Her teasing cannot draw him into sentimentality, but his response places both family and organization inside a clear moral order: she is welcome back, yet kinship will not exempt her from the responsibilities he applies to himself. (Chapter 1283)

Reynold's presence in this phase is therefore deliberately unglamorous. He neither directs the Association nor participates in the public argument over revival; the supplied evidence instead locates him in the infrastructure that must survive the crisis. His work ethic can be excessive, and Rossellin recognizes that immediately, but the same constancy prevents each political shock from becoming an operational one. The Army's ability to endure external pressure rests partly on officers who continue doing necessary work while its most famous figures occupy the foreground. (Chapter 1283)

Information Form and the Final Relay

Nearly a century after the Army's early mercenary period, Han Xiao visits the new headquarters in the Supers Holy Land and finds Reynold still maintaining the logistics department. The brief observation establishes the outcome of his life's central choice: the Grade B+ freelancer who joined to overcome a personal bottleneck has become one of the veteran officers who built and preserved a galactic institution. His position survives changes of headquarters, political order, and generations of personnel because the function he created remains necessary. (Chapter 1459)

The final scene does not present Reynold as trapped by routine. Han Xiao remembers him with the other old comrades who once fought to build a third-rate mercenary group and now occupy successful, influential lives. Reynold's achievement is cumulative rather than singular: decades of factories, reports, repairs, training, and disciplined decisions form part of the Army's foundation. He is alive, established, and still performing the work he chose, while the organization around him has grown to a scale neither he nor his first employer could have supplied alone. (Chapter 1459)

Appearance and personality

Reynold is a tall, thin space-human hybrid with snow-white skin, a long face, a high nose bridge, and unusually bright, sharp eyes compared to an owl's in the night. He is introduced sitting perfectly upright and later appears in black clothes. His movements can be so measured that each step seems placed with a ruler, reinforcing the cold, rational impression created by his face and posture.

He is sober, disciplined, literal, and intensely serious. Alcohol, sexual distraction, idle celebration, and imprecise work all offend his desire for mental clarity. He records lessons in exhaustive detail, listens respectfully even when the material is below his level, and can turn a joke into a formal obligation. This makes him socially awkward but exceptionally dependable as a manager and teacher.

Reynold is not emotionless. He admires great Mechanics, quietly wants Han Xiao's acknowledgment, cares enough about Rossellin to request a politically difficult rescue, and remains loyal when the Army faces his former idol Manison. His dry participation in Wayne Cards and irritation at Rossellin's teasing show that humor can reach him, even if his expression barely changes. The emotions are controlled rather than absent, usually emerging through duty instead of confession.

Abilities and class

Reynold is a Calamity Grade Mechanic with extensive blueprint knowledge, strong construction and production skills, and the rare Molding Talent Perfect Mechanical Sense. His combat equipment and command of Mechanical Force make him formidable, but the corpus emphasizes his value as a builder, manager, and instructor more than as a frontline specialist.

Mechanic training and progression

At recruitment, Reynold is level 135, Grade B+, possesses an Intelligence attribute of 1,147, knows more than six hundred blueprints, and has seventeen talents—almost twice the total of the other Grade B freelancers tested beside him. Seven years of dangerous mercenary work have supplied practical experience, but he joins Han Xiao specifically because knowledge rather than combat is now his bottleneck. Sustained instruction and sparring bring him close to Grade A within two years, and he is explicitly a Calamity Grade by the time he asks for Rossellin's rescue. (Chapters 601–602, 630, 649, and 697)

His later progression is presented through status and responsibility rather than named class advancements. He remains among the Black Star Army's Calamity Grade officers, reads and applies high-level blueprints, oversees Mechanics, and handles technical work across decades. The supplied corpus does not establish that he reaches Beyond Grade A, and the last scene still distinguishes Sylvia's attempt to make that breakthrough from Reynold's continuing logistics role. His latest confirmed combat tier is therefore Calamity Grade. (Chapters 993, 1062, and 1459)

Perfect Mechanical Sense

Perfect Mechanical Sense is a Mechanic-exclusive Molding Talent. It multiplies Reynold's total Machinery Affinity by 1.4, temporarily raises the quality of machinery enhanced with his Mechanical Force by one or two grades up to Pink Grade, and adds four levels to all active Mechanic abilities even beyond their normal level limit. Because the affinity multiplier applies to the total rather than a base value, its benefit grows as Reynold's knowledge, attributes, and ordinary bonuses improve. (Chapter 602)

The talent also gives an intuitive perception of every machine as a balanced mechanical ecology. When Han Xiao temporarily copies it, his Mechanical Force becomes stronger, smoother, more accurate, and easier to control; construction and combat both improve. In Reynold's own work, the talent supports unusually efficient factory construction and high-quality technical output. It does not supply blueprints or resources by itself, so its effectiveness still depends on the knowledge, production systems, and relentless practice Reynold accumulates. (Chapters 602, 624, and 707)

Mechanical combat

Reynold fights through a coordinated mechanical formation. His demonstrated equipment includes purplish-blue mechanical warriors, artillery towers, an energy shield, and electromagnetic traps, all strengthened through Mechanical Force. During sparring, he retreats behind a trap, boosts his artillery, and directs sustained fire while defending against Han Xiao's attacking mechanical soldier. The scene shows ranged control, battlefield preparation, and the ability to coordinate several machine types rather than dependence on a single weapon. (Chapter 630)

His combat standing rises with his class advancement, but the corpus does not assign him a named signature army or personal superweapon. He is strongest where technical preparation and organized support can compound his talent. During Manison's intrusion, for example, his most valuable action is to mobilize many Mechanics and add their calculations to the defense; this cannot make him equal to a peak Beyond Grade A Virtual Mechanic, but it increases Han Xiao's capacity and helps slow the theft of data. (Chapters 630, 961, and 993)

Engineering, production, and logistics

Reynold can design production lines, build bases and factories from blueprints, manufacture common equipment, repair ships and machinery, and allocate supplies across multiple facilities. His logistics factory serves the whole Army, while Han Xiao's personal factory remains faster and produces higher-quality specialist equipment. The distinction is a limitation of scale and personal bonuses rather than a failure: Reynold's department is designed for consistent mass support, which frees Han Xiao from spending months each year on routine production. (Chapters 600–602, 624, 630, and 663)

He also turns technical expertise into administration. Reynold tracks reserves, redirects resources before shortages become critical, supervises a large Mechanic workforce, identifies candidates for specialized missions, and proposes skill-based competitions to recruit new talent. His strict teaching can push students too far, but Nero's Mechanical Sense, endurance, and later gratitude demonstrate its results. Over decades these applications make Reynold less a lone inventor than the architect and custodian of a self-sustaining technical institution. (Chapters 630, 862, 973, 1094, 1101, and 1459)

Power progression

Relationships

• Han Xiao: Reynold joins the Black Star Army specifically to learn from Han Xiao and accepts long-term service in exchange for instruction. Admiration develops into deep loyalty, while Perfect Mechanical Sense gives the relationship a reciprocal element because Han Xiao repeatedly borrows the student's rare gift.
• Sylvia: Sylvia is formally Reynold's senior sister even though he is much stronger when they meet. He treats the title with complete seriousness, later supervises her studies, and eventually serves beside her as one of the veteran officers responsible for the Army's continuity.
• Rossellin: Rossellin is Reynold's older sister, who sent him away after their parents died. He resents her choices and rejects easy sentimentality, yet asks Han Xiao to free her and later protects the Army by warning that family will not excuse renewed misconduct.
• Nero: Han Xiao entrusts Nero's Mechanic education to Reynold. His severe workload exhausts the student, but it helps Nero develop Mechanical Sense, technical discipline, and the fatigue resistance that later sustains him during the Kunde campaign.
• Herlous: Herlous meets Reynold as the Army's newly appointed Logistics Manager and later works beside him among its senior officers. Their duties are complementary: Herlous directs fleets and armed forces, while Reynold supplies and maintains the machinery behind them.
• Phillip: Phillip supports Reynold's logistics administration and normally carries much of the Army's computational load. During Manison's intrusion, Reynold organizes the department to assist and temporarily replace part of Phillip's calculation work.

Items

No named personal weapon, armor, or other qualifying possession is assigned to Reynold in the generated item inventory. His mechanical soldiers, artillery towers, shields, traps, factories, and production lines are equipment categories or organizational infrastructure rather than individually named signature items.