Scenes like turning an entire cathedral into sand and making it a sculptor reminds you that he is an immortal demi-god. while he says he would lose to the trio, he just has to ask the spirits for OP hax and stomp them. Also that suit of armor looks so nice. Definitly gonna become an heirloom.
He meant that he would lose as an individual through skill differences, of course he could win if he waved his hand and magicked them dead with spirits. He is trying to remain grounded in the common sense of regular people, to the extent that he can, rather than just be a force of nature no one can reason with and part of that is limiting himself to skills he learned through his own efforts.
Reminds me of a korean webslop novel with the usual "constellations, status windows, players, yadda yadda" stuff, but the main character at some point gets godlike power and has to struggle with losing his humanity by the inertia of his power. His solution was to use the time loop outside backers provided to defeat the usual korean webslop villain, Zeus, to naturally "grow out" of being human as he grows in power, so that by the time he was done with Big Z, he was no longer attached to life as a human and could ascend to greater power free of worries. It's still power fantasy garbo, but like many of them, it had one interesting facet in this quandary.
