The trainee priest named Anduco just said some incomprehensible words and hurriedly left the hotel.

Through the second-floor window of the hotel, Mark could see that he was looking around carefully when he left, as if he was afraid that someone would find out that he had come to see him.

"Oh! What a weird thing!"

Although it can be heard from Anduco's words that something must have happened in the blood crystal mine in Shichui Town, the Holy Light Church sent people to conduct a secret investigation, and then a priest of the Shichui Town Church seemed to know some secrets and sent people to inform the people above.

But the key issue is that it is true that he has the aura of Holy Light on him, but that is [Holy Light Disgust]!

Can't the priests of the Holy Light Church distinguish this kind of thing?

Besides, looking at Anduco's suspicious look, Mark knew that the blood crystal mine incident must be a troublesome matter comparable to the Holy Light Nightmare.

He was too busy avoiding the troubles of the Holy Light Church, so how could he possibly go and get involved?

"I've decided. I'll stay here for one night and leave this damn place tomorrow! Even Jesus can't stop me!"

Mark thought so and finished preparing the half-mixed holy water. After getting the greedy Xiao Mu drunk, he walked towards the market in Stone Hammer Town with the forbidden holy book and the cross necklace.

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In a dark corner of the Stone Hammer Town Cathedral.

A nervous Anduco whispered to Father Cham, "Teacher, that gentleman indeed exudes a strong aura of holy light. But he seemed unwilling to communicate with me. I told him what you told me and left him alone..."

"You did the right thing." Father Cham, dressed in a red robe, was not surprised by Anduco's situation. "As people from a lower-level diocese, it's against the rules for us to rashly contact an adult who comes to investigate an abnormality. He won't trust you easily. As long as you tell him so, he will definitely go and see for himself."

"Teacher, do you think this gentleman will be able to resolve the issue there?"

“…I hope so!”

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Shichui Town is a commercial town with rich mineral resources and frequent trade exchanges between merchants.

Its nights are naturally not as quiet as those in Champagne.

Even at night, caravans were still traveling in an endless stream through the streets of the town.

The white light emitted by the stone magic lamps unique to the Boulder City area illuminated the cobblestone streets of the town. The faint white light reflected on the faces of passers-by, making them look particularly pale and lifeless.

After Mark walked out of the hotel street, he asked for directions and arrived at the market in Shichui Town.

The Shichui Town market at night is not filled with stalls filled with various blood crystal ores like it is during the day. Most of the stalls have been transformed into barbecue and bread stalls.

The reason why there are not many raw ore transactions at night is not because the people occupying these stalls have no goods to trade, but because the light at night makes it impossible to distinguish the quality of the ore.

Since they couldn't sell the ore, the merchants in Shichui Town turned the entire street into a night market at night in order to seize every opportunity to make money. While attracting customers, they also tried to find out whether the customers had enough money in their wallets.

Some shops even dare to risk violating the laws of the Lily Kingdom by secretly hanging up red light signs at night to keep potential customers locked in their stores.

No matter whether it is the big head or the small head of the customer, they have a firm grasp of it.

As far as Mark knew, there was no delicious food in the Lily Kingdom. The barbecues at the barbecue stalls did not arouse his appetite at all, and the women posing coquettishly in the red-light shops were completely out of his aesthetic taste.

So as soon as he entered a street in the market, he went to a small alley at the innermost part of the market with a clear goal.

Finally, they stopped in front of a wooden door with a black cloth sign with a silver eye pattern on it.

This was the shop of the most famous appraiser in Stone Hammer City, as told to him by the hotel owner.

It is famous not because its owner is a mid-level appraiser.

Instead, this store is only open at night, and each customer can only buy one skill appraisal certificate and one prop appraisal certificate in the store. The price of the two appraisal certificates is half of that of other appraisers.

However, if you still need the service of this store in the future, you can only choose to pay a high price to ask the boss to personally inspect it.

But in the Holy Dragon Continent, except for professionals like Mark who have awakened "unknown" professions, the general career system already has a fixed career skill tree.

Even without the use of appraisal, there are already various descriptions of similar professional skills on the mainland. They only need to continue practicing according to the guidance of teachers or elders to steadily improve their professional level.

Therefore, usually, appraisers are needed for items or equipment. Generally, not many people are willing to spend a high price to appraise low-level items.

No one is willing to let an appraiser personally appraise high-level items. After all, no one wants to reveal that they have high-level items.

It is precisely because of this store’s weird rules that it has almost no repeat customers.

When Mark pushed the door and walked into the appraisal shop, a hot red-haired woman wearing navel-revealing leather armor was packing the appraisal books in the shop and piling them on the black cloth spread out on the counter.

She looked like she was packing her bags.

"Hello, are you Ms. Monica Bellucci? I'm here to buy skill and equipment appraisal books."

Monica turned around when she heard the voice, and her fluffy burgundy wavy long hair shone like lava under the stone gas lamp.

She casually tucked a few strands of her hair behind her ears, and her plump breasts wrapped in leather armor trembled with her movements, revealing a hint of her snow-white waist.

Her gray-green eyes narrowed lazily, with a playful smile on the corner of her mouth, as if she had already seen through the way Mark swallowed his saliva when he looked at her.

"You've arrived just in time! I was about to close the shop and run away." Monica casually pulled out two appraisal books from the black cloth package and threw them on the table next to Mark. "Honkai, 20 gold each. 40 gold in total."

The price was just as affordable as the hotel owner said.

Mark took out the gold coins he had prepared long ago and placed them on the counter next to Monica. He asked curiously, "Are you planning to leave Stone Hammer Town?"

"That's right. The people in this shabby place are too poor. No one in the entire town can produce a few legendary items for me to appraise. It's better to be near the Warcraft Forest. I want to open a shop somewhere else!"

"Little brother, do you have any other identification needs? If so, you can ask around near the border for my name. Within a month, my name should be known in the towns surrounding the Warcraft Mountains. Then just come find me directly."

Monica is extremely confident in her skills. In her opinion, any customer who really has needs will become her repeat customer.

"By the way, little brother, I advise you to leave Stone Hammer Town as soon as possible. Consider it a free piece of advice to you, a guest from Stone Hammer Town!"