If they are to pick which evil they will suffer, they would rather suffer the lesser evil, so they would rather offend the people here than offend Elder Calcetti.
This point made them begin arguing with each other. One of the elders in the airship saw and heard them arguing with his divine sense. So he decided to intervene.
He said to all of them, "I will tell Calcetti. So you don't need to fight."
They rose up to thank the elder. Then they began chatting about something else.
What they wanted to know was how Arthur managed to acquire his current power in five years and what kind of talent he had before he entered the sect.
They were curious about him, so they eventually began chatting about him. This made them come back to the earlier statement that his achievement isn't far-fetched, to the embarrassment of a certain elder.
