
The mysterious woman being insane, running a scam, or her being the Summoned Hero from far beyond Kekaro, are the only reasonable ways she could not know about how cheap any elemental metal is to create now that Transmuter Devices have been popularized, not to mention the woman's total unfamiliarity with the rest of the planet. Her running a scam is most likely, but Almys does not particularly want to chance the woman being actually the Summoned Hero, what with that being Kekaro's basically only hope at this point.
Fifty pounds of 'spellsilver' will be cheap, if it's an elementary metal that the woman can identify and Almys can get transmuted. She'll see what the putative Summoned Hero does with that; if she can turn some ordinary metal with no affinities into an entirely new kind of magical weapon, then...
...Almys doesn't really know what she'll do after that. She'll play it by ear.
