Despite being in potential danger, Skendus and the group ate their meals quietly, and calmly. They were calm because if someone was to attack them, they could protect themselves! Those guards had to be within the God's Punishment Realm of mana, considering that Skendus could read their minds without much of a struggle, in other words, those guards were perfectly killable.
“They’re protecting the church,” Timothy pitched, as he jammed a whole beef steak down his gullet. “Meaning, they really got something to hide, they could be hiding ingots of gold as far as we know.”