I find it impossible to believe that he actually wrote "even as smart as you seem to be" with a straight face. I have to think this is epically subtle trolling, else I'd never sleep again.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'