The Value of Information
The value of information, as a rule, changes with time and place.
"What? Pal, where the hell did you hear that? Ha… nothing for it, then."
Speak a hidden keyword to Renias Delilah, the merchant NPC who lived on the third floor of the Tower, and he would sell you a Mana Stone that permanently expanded your mana pool. In the real world it was nothing special—the sort of tidbit that popped up the instant you searched Story of Top guide—
But if this was a world inside a game, information like that was worth more than anything else.
And of all the countless people who had transmigrated here, I was the only one who had actually played the game.