(POV Narrator)
While in the car they got to the next place Emma saw on the map. The building had the same signature SN logo, but this time it was a grocery store. Emma's family got out of the car, and she went to touch the hood of the car, and before long she started chanting. A purple magic circle appeared over the car as it started magically configuring itself into a new portable form.
The black Honda Accord turned into a black suitcase. Emma wished she could store it in her ring, but it was impossible. Items could be stored inside the car so technically it was a car-shaped storage device. Storage rings can't be kept inside other storage rings by the natural order of things.
James was forced to carry the black suitcase even though it had a 90% weight reduction spell cast on it, it was too much for Emma, to casually carry around.
This time, James told his family to stay behind as he the suitcase by Emma's side and went head first into the store alone. Before he left he whispered a few things to Emma before he kissed her and hugged both of them before he left.
Emma's eyes glowed pick as James grew horns and wings under her watch. James turned back to look at Emma, as he smiled and went head first into the store alone.
After waiting for a few minutes, Emma kept walking in circles and even cast the same spell she did on James, looking like she would enter right after him. Yet before she came face to face with the Dark oak wood door she hit some by mistake he left the store.
James smiled as he took Emma to the side to say a few things, while Lucas kept smiling as he looked at his dad's new form. After talking for a bit Emma & James returned, Emma cast the same spell she did on James on all of them as her chant lasted longer than the one she used on James.
Lucas was shown a whole new world the moment they stepped inside the store. The ones shopping at the store weren't human at all. They were all monsters from multiple different races.
The items sold in the store were never normal. Lucas saw screaming fruit that begged for help, chained up computers with black spikes that random shootout every three seconds that hit the floor. All the black spikes shot out were devoured by those around them crazily.
The items came in three categories in Lucas's mind. Scary, funny, and strange, everything was strange in the store, yet he could still generally sort the items based on what looked like alone.
Lucas saw eyes in jars from multiple different races, large hearts in multiple colors, and more. A pair of white wings lay on top of a golden altar. Humans with pure black eyes kept looking at the wings in shock. Afterward, they kept looking around the store.
Inside the store, someone caught Lucas's eye, he looked like the king from a set of playing cards. His blonde hair had small circular curls at the bottom along with his beard that covered his neck.
On his head was a short black top hat with red tringle-shaped patterns on it. His eyes were black, and his mustache was thin but went up in a mini swirl pattern near the end.
His overall looks were average he was obese but not morbidly obese. The man is wearing a blue-style yukata with a white inner layer as a shirt. The pants were similar to sweatpants, but they were red.
His shoes were generic black boots.
What had caught his attention with his unique look was the fact he should be dead. He had multiple fatal injuries on him, from his head to his chest. While he ran for his life, playing cards fell to the floor from his pockets, stained in his blood. Most of the cards were jokers.
His parents told him to ignore the man's screams for help. They told him if they helped him their illusion magic spell might shatter in the process.
{{"Honey, Lucas is asking us to help that man screaming over there. Should we do it?"}} James asked his wife.
{{"Dear, you know I can see sins right? That man has made a living off scamming children by gambling with cards."}} Emma replied calmly.
{{"So just ignore him, right?"}} James asked while raising an eyebrow.
{{"Yes, I'll tell Lucas a little white lie to lessen the guilt. My baby boy shouldn't suffer due to his hero complex."}} Emma said with a stern tone.
Oddly enough, the man kept regenerating all the wounds he gained while in the store. Every so often, a monster would get ahold of him and eat his arm, or leg before throwing him to the side. He had always managed to crawl away. Soon enough, the man found himself in a hiding spot for five minutes.
During this time his parents were buying some materials inside the store before they kept looking around. Lucas even saw the same man fully healed now run away from a cloud of black smoke that seemed to be chasing after him.
The black smoke caught up in less than a minute, it drove into his mouth before his eyes turned pure black. A crowd of humans with pure black eyes looked upon the man with smiles.
Suddenly, Lucas's eyes were covered by his mom, and soon enough, they walked to the back of the store. Before they entered the empty waiting room, they overheard the conversation between the owner, and the customer also wanted to use the spirit nodes. Sadly Lucas didn't get to hear much of it as his mom covered his ears instead of his eyes.
"You want a fucking dragon heart just to travel to the demon plane, are you insane!? How about going to the abyss in Africa? How much will that cost me" An old man asked the young man before him in a standard office. The only notable item is a picture of the owner next to 2 other people.
One was an Asian woman in a Japanese kimono with red eyes. The other was an Australian-looking man with a dark tan and long braided black hair. They all stood in front of this very store in the picture.
"As a valued customer who has been using our services for centuries, I can make an exception. Since that location is technically still on earth. Your total is either your hand or the eyeball of the hundred-eye demon ghost.
Wizard blood & limbs are very valuable, don't worry, shore policy dictates any body parts sold must be cleared of all links, karma, or previous connections. So no one can use that hand as an object to curse you from afar if you sell it." The young man with green hair said, his gray hollow eyes looking down on the person before him.
The youth with green hair had a standard white t-shirt with a green tie and wore skinny blue jeans in a ripped style.