Department of Unified Protection

"A new age has begun. The age of magic is over. Magic is only for weaks who had to seek such heretic powers to have success in their lives. It's time of the government to protect their people... Like how the Church did years ago."

- Creed Diskenth

The Department of Unified Protection (abbreviated as D.U.P) is a government agency of the New World Order in LOTM: Sword of Kings. It is an organization created to arrest all Magicians and magic users and to label by them as "magi-terrorists" to ensure that the events of Lost Christimas and Downfall of Brazil are not repeated. The director of the D.U.P is a man named Shiki. The D.U.P recruits soldiers as artificial Meta-Humans officers that have been seen capable of manipulating concrete to capture magi-terrorists.

Overview
The D.U.P. was founded by the Shiki with the "official" goal of preventing another magic incident like the ones started by Holy Eye of Order and Revelation of Qliphoth, the near destruction of the world by an extremely powerful Pure-Blooded Devil known as Ara Astaroth and Heis, by locking up and detaining magicians, renamed magi-terrorists. In reality, however, Shiki's goal was to prevent another mass slaughter of Magicians at the hands of humans as he was a sympathetic officer working to an evil tyrant known as Diabla the Qliphoth Tyrant.

Within the first year of service, the D.U.P. had captured over 300 magicians "on the rampage." Utilizing the research notes of Travon from Holy Eye of Order, the D.U.P. began employing Forced Meta-Humans as field soldiers by recruiting people from military service who had tested positive for the Magi-Tech gene used Shiki's own Concrete powers as the template after initially considering a wide array of options.