Reynolds Leywin/Synopsis

## Season 1

After the birth of his son Arthur, Reynolds retired from his adventurer life and settled down with Alice. While Rey was a loving father, he could sometimes be too rough with Arthur and even once tried to teach him how to wield a sword when he was barely a year old, which frustrated Alice.

Over the years Arthur would develop much faster than normal babies, being able to read just before he was 1. One day, while Reynolds kept up with his training, he accidentally knocked over the tree in their front yard. When Alice went outside to check on him, they were both caught off guard when their house suddenly exploded. Immediately worried for Arthur, Rey and Alice rushed inside the destroyed house only to find out that Arthur had awakened his mana core, while not even being 3 years old. Believing their son to be a genius, Reynolds and Alice would teach Arthur more about mana and help him train his body with basic work outs.

Deeming his son capable enough, Reynolds gifted Arthur a wooden sword for his 3rd birthday and began sparring with him. For the next following year, Arthur would continue to grow in strength to the point where Reynolds had nothing left to teach Arthur. As Reynolds realised that Arthur is much more capable than he expected, Reynolds and Alice decided to move to Xyrus City to find Arthur a proper tutor.

On their journey, they are accompanied by their old friends from the Twin Horns Party. During their trip, the party was surprised to see just how capable Arthur really was, when he sparred with Adam Krensh. His match resulted in Arthur teaching the other members how to move like him, including his own father.

Halfway through their journey, they are suddenly ambushed by an army of bandits, who planned to kidnap the women and Arthur in the group. While he and the Twin Horns fought off against the bandits, Alice kept Arthur close to her as they hid in the carriage, until Reynolds crashed into their carriage as he was pushed back by the Great Mountains Bandit Leader. While Arthur wanted to fight with his father, Rey instead asked Arthur to take Alice and run, while he bought them time. Arthur at first refused, but eventually agreed after his father revealed that Alice was pregnant. Afterwards, Reynolds entrusted Arthur with the task to protect himself and his mother, while they escaped, to which he agreed. While Arthur ran off with his mother, Reynolds continued to fight off against the bandit leader. Despite being overwhelmed and injured from the leader’s initial attack, Reynolds managed to hold his own against the bandit leader and even beat him into submission. As the Bandit Leaders group was decimated by the Twin Horns to only a handful of people, the bandit leader barked at his conjurer Damien to kill the mother and son duo in retaliation. Realizing that his mother and unborn sibling would not survive the attack, Arthur pushed his mother out of the way as he was hit by the mage’s attack, which led him to fall off the cliff. Nevertheless, Arthur managed to bring the conjurer with him over the cliff.

Believing that their son had died from the fall, Reynolds and Alice were distraught over losing their son, with Reynolds falling into a deep depression, neglecting his wife in the process. When his wife, in her grief, attempted to kill herself, she was saved by the intervention of the Twin Horns, who lash out at Reynolds for not consoling his wife. Despite still being depressed, Reynolds pulled himself together for the sake of his wife and unborn child. Reynolds did his best to console his wife and assured her that she did all that she could and that he did not blame her for what happened.

Arriving at Xyrus City, Reynolds and Alice decided to start a new life there, while living with Reynolds old friend Vincent Helstea. Empathetic for his friends sudden loss, Vincent welcomed Reynolds and Alice to his home and appointed Rey as his head of security to his Auction House. Months after the loss of their son, Rey and Alice were overcome with joy and disbelief, when Arthur contacted them as they realised that their son Arthur was in fact alive. In his message, Arthur revealed the fact that he was currently residing in the Kingdom of Elenoir and that he would return in a few years.

## Season 2

For the next three years, Reynolds would continue to train his mana core until he broke through to the **Dark Orange Stage of his Mana Core Cultivation**, which unlocked his fire affinity. Now, he was capable of creating and emitting fire from his body. Sometime before or after his breakthrough, his wife Alice gave birth to their daughter Eleanor Leywin.

While Reynolds was just as affectionate and protective of his daughter as he was to his son, Reynolds would sometimes use inappropriate language around Ellie, causing his wife to scold or threaten him.

After returning home from work, Reynolds saw his wife embracing their son at the front door. Reynolds immediately recognized Arthur and ran to his family, tearfully embracing them. The family moved their reunion inside, where Arthur recounted his journey to Elenoir after their separation. While Reynolds was happy to see his children finally meet, he was more interested in how much Arthur had developed his mana core. Despite trying to show off to his son by telling him that he had broken through to the dark orange stage, Reynolds was left in shock over Arthur achieving the light red stage, causing Reynolds to proclaim "Holy Shit!", which Eleanor repeated. While Alice was impressed by Arthur's growth, she reprimands Reynolds about cursing in front of their daughter, giving off a murderous aura that Reynolds was intimidated by, which caused him to quickly tell his daughter not to repeat that word. They are soon interrupted by the arrival of Reynolds friend Vincent Helstea as well as his wife Tabitha and his daughter Lilia. Reynolds formally introduced his son to Vincent, revealing the fact that he had survived. Vincent was impressed by how well behaved Arthur was and questioned if he was really Rey's son, a remark that ruffled Reynolds.

The families then moved outside, where Arthur and Reynolds began to spar. The two at first trade simple attacks, appearing evenly matched. Realizing his son is much stronger than he initially thought, Reynolds ignites his body with fire, proclaiming he would start fighting more serious, to which Arthur responded in kind by emitting lightning from his body, revealing that he was a deviant. Now at full strength, the two began to emit much stronger mana, destroying Vincent's yard in the process. Reynolds was on the receiving end of most of Arthur's attacks as he tried to keep up with his son's speed. Once Reynolds managed to close the gap between them, he gained the upper hand thanks to his height advantage. The battle ended in a draw, however, when they both stopped short of delivering a fatal blow to each other. The father and son immediately burst into laughter with Reynolds questioning how Arthur managed to learn lightning deviant magic.

The two families later had dinner together, where Vincent brought up how Arthur had a very promising future as a mage. He also suggested that they should enroll Arthur into Xyrus Academyand even offered to sponsor Arthur. Nevertheless, Reynolds and Alice were hesitant at the idea as Xyrus Academy was the most prestigious magic institution on their continent. Moreover, they were already indebted to the Helstea's for taking them in to begin with and didn’t want to burden them any further. Arthur himself expressed how he would like to spend more time with his family after finally reuniting with them. Later that night, Reynolds and Alice went to Arthur's room, where they bid him goodnight and once again expressed how happy they were to have him home. As Reynolds and Alice left, Rey asked Arthur not to hold anything against Vincent over what they discussed as Vincent does mean well.

The next day, while his family were out shopping, Reynolds and Vincent met with the Director of Xyrus Academy Cynthia Goodsky. Once his son returned home, Arthur was introduced to the famous headmaster. Afterwards, everyone made their way to the paved courtyard in order to watch Arthur’s duel with Director Goodsky. Once the fight began, Reynolds was surprised to see his son not only use earth, but also wind magic. Once the battle concluded, Arthur revealed the true extent of his affinities to his family, Reynolds was absolutely amazed at Arthur's potential and was even flustered, when Cynthia declared that he could become one of the strongest mages in the future. Thereafter, Cynthia immediately created a sound barrier to have a private conversation with Arthur. When their conversation concluded, Arthur and his family went inside, where he discussed his intentions of becoming an Adventurer.

Alice was naturally opposed to the idea and absolutely forbid it after everything they went through. While Reynolds could relate with his son's thirst for adventure, he was still hesitant in allowing Arthur to become an Adventurer due to the dangers of the Beast Glades. As a way to comfort his parents, Arthur suggested that he could have a chaperone during his time as an adventurer, who would supervise and protect him. When Reynolds admitted that it wasn't a bad idea, Alice yelled at her husband for even considering the idea. After a brief debate, Alice finally agreed to Arthur becoming an Adventurer, but only under strict conditions. First, he will wait until after his upcoming birthday. Second, he must have a guard on him at all times and third, he must return home once every two months.

The next morning while having breakfast, Reynolds and Vincent discuss their upcoming plans for the ten year anniversary of the Helstea Auction House. Moreover, they also joke around over Reynolds slacking off to throw a welcoming party later that day. Afterwards, Reynolds and Alice reveal their conditions about Arthur becoming an Adventurer. Vincent, however, questions who would be a suitable guard for someone like Arthur. When Reynolds notices how Eleanor was playing with her two forks, he gets the idea to ask someone from the Twin Horns to go with Arthur. Alice is especially surprised at Rey's good idea, which upsets Reynolds as he asks her not to be so surprised, whenever he has a good idea.

### The Helstea Auction House Anniversary

Two months after agreeing to Arthur becoming an Adventurer, Reynolds reunited with his party the Twin Horns, whom he hired as extra security for the Helstea Auction House 10 year anniversary event. While the team were happy to see Reynolds, they were emotional over reuniting with Arthur after not seeing him since the bandit attack. In fact, Reynolds and Alice were brought to tears over their reunion with Arthur. While preparing for the event that day, Reynolds and Vincent discussed how Reynolds stationed his security. When Vincent asked if it would be better to have more conjurers indoors, Reynolds rejects this as he believed that Angela from the Twin Horns and the wind conjurer from their security would be enough and that anymore than them would cause panic among the attendants. In fact, Reynolds assured Vincent that the Auction House is in good hands and that the Auction House won't get destroyed no matter what, though after Vincent's recent experiences with Arthur, he would hold Reynolds accountable to that statement.

Moving on, Vincent revealed that Arthur requested a sword from him, which surprised him as he thought Arthur would be more like Reynolds and use hand to hand combat rather than swordplay. Reynolds admits that despite giving Arthur a wooden starter sword when he was four, Arthur was completely self taught. Furthermore, Reynolds also admits that when he spars with Arthur, he exudes this certain pressure, as if he is fighting an experienced warrior who is not used to his body. Vincent, however, dismissed these traits as early puberty. With everyone prepared for the event, the families head out for the Auction House.

Arriving at Helstea Auction House, Reynolds immediately gets to work as he secured the Auction House, while ordering the guards to their duties. While the event initially goes unimpeded, the entire building suddenly is surrounded by an intense aura that emitted a palpable bloodlust, overwhelming most people in the building. Reynolds immediately went to the VIP Room to check for his family's wellbeing. When his family's safety is confirmed, Reynolds searched the entire building for the perpetrator. Afterwards, he found and apprehended an intruder, whom everyone believed was responsible for the sudden aura pressure. Reynolds later reunited with his family, where he officially met the King of Sapin, Blaine Glayder. Blaine at first thanked Reynolds for his services and commended him for his strength. Blaine, however, then asked if he'd be willing to give his son's bond to his royal mage Sebastian. Reynolds declines his majesty's request as he was not responsible for his son's bond and so he could not speak on Arthur's behalf. When the King turned his attention to Arthur, Reynolds watched as Arthur repeatedly declined Blaine's request. Thereupon, Sebastian has one of Blaine's knight's attack Arthur for insulting the royal family. In a split second, Arthur manages to dodge and defend himself against the knight, while also knocking him out in one punch. Nevertheless, before anyone could do anything else, Arthur suddenly passed out, while the royal mage Sebastian was found with a broken leg and in a catatonic state.

Reynolds immediately took his son home to rest, while he met with a representative of the king named Jasper Cogwright, who offered to compensate the Leywin family with a bag of gold for the inconvenience they had suffered. Moreover, he also informed them that the knight and the mage, who attacked Arthur had been relieved of their duty. Reynolds was not happy about their so called compensation as his son was nearly killed because of them. As they talked, Arthur himself entered the room, relieving Reynolds. Despite Reynolds insistence that they cannot just give them money to forget what had transpired, Arthur asked that they accept the compensation as he would rather not make anything more complicated for their family. After the representative left, Reynolds gave the money to Arthur as he was the victim in this incident. Moreover, he would need this money when he started his Adventurer career.

Following the troublesome events, Reynolds, Alice, and Arthur met with the Twin Horns to discuss, who would be his chaperone. Adam was the first to decline as he was not good at looking after kids and with his personality, it was not unlikely that Arthur may try to kill him in his sleep. As the discussion went on, Reynolds mentioned that he had hoped that either Durden or Helen would look after Arthur, but to everyone's surprise Jasmine volunteered as well to look after Arthur. With a chaperone picked, Reynolds took Arthur back to the Helstea Auction House to pick a sword.

Not long after, Arthur celebrated his ninth birthday with his family, the Helstea's, and the Twin Horns. While everyone enjoyed the small feast that was prepared, Reynolds and Alice gave Arthur their present, a leather glove made from a spiked aurochs that Reynolds personally hunted and skinned. This glove was equipped with three gemstones, which possessed healing properties. The next morning, as Arthur prepared himself for his journey as an adventurer, Reynolds expressed his faith in Arthur, but reminded him to know his limits and trust in Jasmine in case anything happens. As Arthur bid his family goodbye, Reynolds did his best to comfort his wife and daughter.

## Season 3

For the next two years, Reynolds would continue to carry out his duties as head of the Helstea security as well as train and cultivate his mana. Despite his endless hours of training however, he was unable to pass the Dark-Orange stage of his mana core. Reynolds would spend as much time as he could with his son whenever he would return home from adventuring, sparring with him as well as arm wrestling him.

### The Announcement at Etistin City

While putting his daughter to bed after a long day of playing with her, Reynolds and Alice were met with horror at Alice's ring that began to glow, signifying Arthur was in danger. They were somewhat met with ease when their son responded to his mother with his communication scroll to assure her that he was fine. While anxiously waiting for his son to return, Reynolds was introduced to a boy named Elijah Knight, who was sent by Arthur to live with them. Reynolds did not object to this as he was happy to welcome a friend of his son. Upon Arthur's return from the Beast Glades, Reynolds immediately ran to Arthur and picked him up, commenting about how much his hair has grown since he last saw him, while Arthur playfully tells his father that his beard has grown even more unruly in that same amount of time.

Reynolds was eager to know about Arthur's dungeon raid and was left amazed as Arthur and Elijah recounted their venture into the Dire Tombs, as well as the fact that they fought and killed an Elderwood Guardian. Arthur then asked his father what stage he was currently at with his core, to which Reynolds confessed that he was still stuck in the Dark-Orange stage. Arthur gave his father the Elderwood Guardian beast core that he obtained, assuring him that he would be able to break through by using it. Reynolds tried to deny the gift as Arthur worked hard to obtain it, but Arthur insisted as he wanted his father to grow stronger as well, informing his father that he was know at the Light-Orange stage, surprising Reynolds. Reynolds gratefully accepted the beast core while playfully warning Arthur that he better be prepared the next time they duel.

The next day, after absorbing the mana from the beast core and meditating, Reynolds finally broke through to the Solid-Orange stage of his core, but for some reason the core did not crumble to dust after he depleted it. Reynolds later reconvened with Arthur where he informed Arthur of his new level as well as return the beast core to his son, puzzled over it remaining intact. Reynolds thanked his son again for helping him as he left for work. For the next few days leading up to the Reynolds would continue to spend time with his son as he oversaw his training as well as watch him spar with the security team. During that time a public announcement was to be held by not only the royal family of Sapin, but Elenoir and Darv as well, that was to be broadcasted live from Etisin City.

On the day of the announcement, Reynolds and his family were present in the town square where together they witnessed the broadcast where the royal families revealed their discovery of another continent. The royal families then explained how they needed to unify now more than ever and in their attempt to do so they have spent the last few years solidifying their unification with the interracial tournament, the ban on Dwarfs and Elves becoming Adventurers lifted, and Xyrus Academy now accepting children of all three kingdoms. The royal families then presented six individual warriors who would act as representatives of their kingdoms and their defenders dubbed the Lances.

Days after the announcement, Reynolds celebrated his daughters birthday by throwing her a surprise party. As the party was underway, Reynolds took the opportunity to thank everyone for attending his daughter's birthday as well as express his interest in seeing his son and daughter share a dance, to which Arthur obliged. Reynolds later joined his family in watching Eleanor open her presents, one of which was a bow of elven design, making Reynolds ponder who the person that gifted Eleanor the bow was. Some time later, Reynolds was present when Arthur and Elijah received their uniforms for Xyrus Academy.

## References

1. ↑ The Beginning After The End Webcomic: Season 1