Centurion

"Through action a man becomes a hero." "Through death a hero becomes a legend." "Through time a legend becomes a myth." "Through hearing a myth a man takes action."

- Cody Centurion

The Centurions (センチュリオン) were a elite variant of the regular soldiers of the Kingdom of Technology Armed Forces during the Third War. While the Centurions were the rarest units of the KTAF, the Centurions makes up in few numbers by being one of the most skilled fighters and commanders of the war, being considered the best that Technology as to offer against the Damned.

Despite their physical conditioning were enhanced with their Arcane Augmentation Exoskeleton, the Centurions were then betrayed by the Kingdom of Technology with the continqency Centurion Protocole Order 666 that made the Centurions was hostile threats to Technology, with permission to eliminate on sight. The reasoning behide the creation of the is not known.

The word "Centurion" would also be used as the surename of the holding title.

Background
The origins of the Centurions lies in that non-magical human beings are unable to stay at the top when mages can outperform them when they're able to use magic. Mages have the superior power to take out those who not, which formed a power struggle. Like when a army of non-magical beings were to attack, they can be easily taken out by wizards with ease.

To overcome this, the Department of Arcane Science & Development began to devise ideals and concepts to allow non-magic humans to be not only on par with mages, but have the capacity to use magic themselves. Over 20 years before the Third War, the Department as taken in orphans of at least between 6-7 years old. Taken in around 200, these children were used as test subjects for the Artifical Mage lacrima, allowing non-magical beings to allow to perform magic. The experiments were basically inserting these lacrima to allow the kids to use magic, however due to the body of the kids, most of them died when they're unable to contain the magic and essentially imploded.

Despite that it became unethical, 100 canditates survived the lacrima surgery and proceeded in with the experiment, which they're given military training and combat and tactical theory for when they'd become full soldiers of the Armed Forced. By the time it was two years before the Third War, the children now grown up had bore the Arcane Augmentation Exoskeleton that enhanced their reflexes, strength, speed and durability to allow them to be on par with mages of great strength. The Centurions were then used to launch a surprised on the dark guild known as the Hermetic Order of the Golden War that sparked the Golden War, and one-year war between the guild and the Kingdom of Technology.

The Golden War provided the perfect opporunity to show the strength of the Centurions, which appeared to be of great success as the enhanced humans were to lead the Armed Forces to victory against the Golden Dawn, arresting most of their peoples or had no choice but to eliminate them.

Equipment & Weapons
Centurions wielde and use experimental equipment and arments such as the Arcanic Assault Rifle and the Arcane Augmentation Exoskeleton, a power armour powered by a lacreactor, a lacrima that's capable of producing itself magical power. Primary, the Centurions uses the rifle created by the Department of Arcane Science & Development which uses the magic of the Artifical Mage lacrima contained in the Centurion to be operated. The rifle was an prototype for which the official weapon would be produced.