Barren open up his heavy sack and took out a small sack from it. As he put the small sack on the counter table, it gives off a loud thud sound.

James: Hmm...

James's thoughts: System, Full-area scan.

As Barren lay down the items on the counter, an invisible blue ray started scanning from the bottom to the top of the entire shop.

System: Scanning entire environment. Scanning complete. Three unknown energy signatures detected.

A female electronic voice rang out inside James' mind.

Originally the system has a male electronic voice but James requested for the female voice as he does not want to be similar to a certain rich superhero[1] who has a system that gives off an electronic male voice. James also altered the female voice to be similar to a certain China's female singing vocal synthesizer[2].

James's thoughts: System, location.

System: First Location Detected. Counter table. Second Location: Customer's sack.

James looked at the items that Barren laid over the counter.

Some of the items look like minerals but in different colors and some of them seems to be just colored pebbles. White outlined circles started showing on some of the items as if they were notifying James that those are the items that are giving off unknown energy signatures.

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Barren: I am not sure which one you are looking so I just gather a sack of them. 

James: I will take them all.

James replied without any hesitation.

Barren: Really?

James: Not a problem. So which card do you want?

Barren: I would like to have another Wooden Hound.

James: One Wooden Hound coming up. By the way, did you hunt anything special?

Barren: Not much but I got my hands on a new type of species.

James: New type of species?

Barren: You know normal rabbits that we hunters caught has nothing on their forehead but the one I caught seems to have a shiny red stone on its forehead.

Baron replied while pulling out a rabbit by its long ears from his heavy sack.

Barren: I think I would get profit after selling this.

James: How about selling that to me?

Barren: You? What do you want it for?

James: Can't tell you much but I will offer you a new hunting companion in exchange.

Barren: Really? What's so new about it.

James took a card from behind the counter.

James: Wooden Falcon. If you have problems hunting your prey that could easily fly away, this companion would come in handy.

The Wooden Falcon shows a picture of a falcon made of wood and has wings that seem to be made out of green leaves.

Barren: Deal! I can finally stop feasting on just deer and rabbit meat.

Barren handed over the rabbit and took the two cards from the counter.

Barren: C'mon, Woody. Time to go home.

Wooden Hound: Woof!

Barren spoke while throwing the heavy sack over his shoulders. He then unsummoned the Wooden Hound and left the shop.

James: See you, come again. Corn, you also have to go. Your parents would be worried.

Corn: Okay

Corn replied sadly as he can no longer play around with the wooden dog.

Corn: See you again. Uncle James.

Corn shouted as he left the shop.

James: I am still in my twenties..... Oh well.....

James sighed as he has given up on Corn who still calling him Uncle in spite of telling him so many times.

James: System, time to do some experiments.

System: Commencing operation. Research portal activated.