I wonder if the author even bothers to think about what he's written minutes earlier. The dude gets two and a half million bloody gold pieces for a bunch of fricking goblin magic stones. Then we learn 100 pieces is enough to live for a month. The next moment we hear metal is really expensive because ores must be mined in monster infected areas. Where the hell did those 2.5 million gold pieces come from under such circumstances, huh? The pesky store would have had enough cash reserves to allow 25.000 people to live for a month or over 2000 people to live for a year. Yeah, right.
The author is a smoker, but he ain't smoking any ordinary tobacco leaves, that's for sure.