Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27123758-20191202204135/@comment-37173421-20200205212133

Alright, thanks for the clarification.

Now, the thing is, literally any skill feat I've ever talked about here or on Discord was very likely done by The Host / The Collective rather than The Lord. Hence where things get complicated.

The Lord of Valevs, otherwise known as The Valev or Chad Valev or... so on, so forth, is an entity absolute leagues above any individual Host. The idea of how The Host is inhibited by how much The Collective wants to help them is not a thought to The Lord, as he effectively controls them absolutely and already holds all of their vital memories. In any manner of combat, it's not just fighting an opponent who happens to have the collective knowledge of every soul of The Collective, but also a man who has every last one of those souls working overtime trying to assist him in any strategical way.

With that out of the way,

Hand to Hand
Even outside of magical techniques utilized and set up through incredible micro-management capable of making a nigh-invincible shield with the help of temporal magic, luckily enough, The Lord has shown a helluva lot of feats while crippling himself in one way or another. There isn't too much more I can say about HTH combat, since there's only so many ways you can describe a person bodying other people.
 * Through immense prediction techniques that will be described latter, managed to win a one-versus-literally everybody else Capture the Flag with The Collective, several decades in a row, utilizing only the barebones magical amplifications and a blade.
 * Has survived tens of thousands of years with zero magical abilities in a survival simulation inside of his mind, having to manage humanly hunger and fatigue alongside no capabilities for magic and no proper weaponry or equipment while fighting against any manner of souped up monsters or creatures within.

Magic
Magical skill and micro-management, I've elaborated before on the past - while The Lord was never much of a genius on his own, he was often recanted as an idiot savant, being incredibly skilled at adapting and winging just about any magical subject and having great learning capabilities despite being the absolute last person you'd want to go to about actually learning the complexities of Caelum. This overall adaptation and affinity for new things led him to be incredibly attuned to Caelum, being able to utilize it with incredible precision and accuracy to the point of developing Adagio alongside the far more intelligent Iona Riveras. Each magical ability he does have was more or less specifically chosen or created to make as invincible of a supersoldier as possible (which has proven to be very, very effective, as these children with monstrously lower capabilities than him have been able to ravage lands with their skillsets), his knowledge of battle tactics and win conditions attributed from carrying over war strategies and connecting them to one-versus-one magical combat. Which brings me to...

In General
Perhaps the most notable thing is the overall incredibly odd thought process and prediction techniques The Lord possesses. You see, since predicting the opponent often doesn't work, since an opponent can sabotage or act in different unpredictable ways (and this is taken from the man who has a colony of trillions to break down and analyze both enemy techniques and enemy calculations of their own techniques in order to reverse engineer and counter them), The Lord prefers to simply analyze the only ways any move he does could possibly be defeated, regardless of what his opponent may or may not want to do. Using this manner, Valev faces a far easier to control battle, by cutting out the opponent as a variable. As long as he acts in a manner that, to no extent, has any weakness, and predicts all attacks and moves that could break the indestructible fortress of defense, there isn't much an opponent can do, and they can't 'fool' his prediction techniques since they have absolutely nothing to do with the opponent at all.

Such would be the shortened thesis.