The merchant decisively placed his hand down and walked back to the cabin. After Valkin's return, even merchants who still believe in Shandakor, the Windrider, are generally on the kind side of the Neutral Faction, and have no common language with him at all.
Merchants, after all, first pursue shiny Small Gold Coins. Who cares about adventuring and protection! A merchant group from the Kind Alignment is simply a joke; good people doing business? That's just selling some small goods along the way.
Maztika was so enthusiastic because they saw the strangely shaped Otherworldly Whale. This method of turning living beings into metal doesn't seem like something good people would do. Generally speaking, mages who can do such work for big money are willing to do a little dark work.
In the end, I ended up revering the wrong mountain!
