After the three went into the shop owners office, a guy's voice sounded off.
"The Queen is dead! Or rather she will wish she is. Let's celebrate. Hey new guy, my name is Billy Champagne. As my name suggests I have a bottle for everyone!"
Feeling a bit frustrated, Lich thought it would be a good idea to drink to see if that helps his mood. Everyone still left in the shop also took a break and started to drink.
The front door opened up and Lich hide the bottle behind his back, just in case that he would get in trouble for drinking while at work. Seeing this Dragoon laughed.
"Don't worry it is just the soccer girl. This is the time she usually comes back inside. I am surprised you didn't see her out there practicing."
Walking beside her was a guy with a first aid kit. Then they realized she was bandaged up. However no one seemed to be worried as Myrtle laughed at the girl.
"You hurt yourself again? How is it possible to get that badly hurt by yourself? Wait, don't tell me you were practicing out in the wilds again?"
Hearing Myrtle, the girl ran into the back. Then the guy who was with her walked up and got a bottle of champagne from Billy.
"You guessed right, Megan was out kicking the ball against some goblins. However they weren't so keen on playing with her and attacked. Luckily it wasn't to serious. However she did end up at the clinic while I was working. After I fixed her up I decided to bring her here."
...
'I am finished with work finally. I am surprised those three are still in the office. I wonder what the shop owner is doing to them?'
Lich got his answer as they stepped out before he could leave. However it seemed the shop owner was holding the money and coupon. After she walked up to Lich and payed him she asked him a question.
"I am sorry for those two, would you forgive them for me please? If you do, I promise to have someone making their lives a living hell. Oh and that must be her."
While she was talking, someone came through the front door. The person who came in was pretty short, a bit under 5ft tall. Seeing her though, everyone of the workers in the shop got scared.
"Hahaha! Prepare to taste fear! For I, Toph the Bloody Giant is here!"
Lich sadly didn't notice the fears on the others face as he was the closest to the door, and he made a dumb comment.
"Oh, I didn't know giants were shorter than me. So am I like a Titan or something?"
Hearing him, everyone including the shop owner stepped away from him. Toph then walked up to Lich and grabbed his shirt. However the outcome of this, no one expected.
[Friend: Toph Added]
Being confused why the person who seemed to want to fight added him, she started to hug him tightly and popped his back.
Hearing the loud pop the people around thought she was going to try and snap him in half.
'Dammit senior! If you killed a coupon user in my shop I will be in trouble! I need to help him before she kills him!'
The next words out of Toph mouth though made everyone's jaws drop.
"Of course the person the Lich of server 0 chose to be his champion would be horrible at conversation do's and don'ts. If you were anyone else's champion, I would kill you haha."
...
After they talked, Toph grabbed all of the people who caused Lich trouble, even the poor X and Freya who didn't really do anything.
Showing up at the Mech place, Lich saw a somewhat new face. Her eyes were like his in the training phase, one being orange and the other being purple or violet. Her hair was a pure white. Seeing how everyone around were stiff with her nearby it was obvious she was Tako.
"Hey Tako, love the new look."
"Well I did it so we could be together, I started over so we can work together and advance. I was waiting here so I could tell you. Now I am going to leave and do Paths. This will be the last time we will be apart!"
She then ran out and piloted her mech into the distance.
Lich then looked over at another worker and asked an important question. "Do you know what she meant by that?"
The worker just shook their head. Lich chose to pretend she wasn't there when we arrived and went to work.
...
When Lich went to grab a boxes of key fobs for the mechs, he saw a guy asleep in the corner. He was wearing aviators and was in a flight suit. Lich didn't pay much attention to him as Lich needed to move way to many mechs to finish all of the quests.
On one of his way back to get another mech he saw a women getting into a mech. She had a key ring full of key fobs, as Lich watched her put a random one in he only now realized it might not matter if the key fob matches.
He always thought he happened to grab the right one each time. But it was more logical that the key fob when used, turned into the correct key fob.
Wondering why he didn't think about it, he just ran a bit faster and hoped no one knew he just figured out about the key fobs.
While parking a mech on a display area. A close by mech opened up as well. A guy with a ferret on his shoulder got out. Seeing Lich looking at him, he nodded his head and started the run back for another mech.
Looking at the distance Lich needed to run, he sighed.
'I wish there was a more efficient way to do this. But the only ways to fix it just make it more complicated and costly.'
...
Taking a breather from moving mechs and running, he flung sweat off him self to the side. However he didn't see the person standing there. Luckily for her, she summoned a barrier in between them.
"Gross." Leaving after saying that one word, Lich felt really awkward.
...
Now that he took a break, he ended up meeting some others who were also moving mechs.
'Wow that guy is lucky.' Lich was looking enviously at a guy riding a golem. Lich kind of wish he had something he could just sit on and run for him. However as Lich out ran the golem, he decided it was better to just run. Since being carried would waste more time than just running.
Getting back inside, Lich saw that the guy who was sleeping earlier was now on the ground crying and rubbing his eyes.
"Why did you touch my eyes Bella! Your hands are covered in pepper juice!"
There was a girl beside him who was eating a glowing pepper. "It isn't my fault you were sleeping here. I thought it was rude to the others who are working to see you being lazy here. So I thought it was my job to wake you up."
"I was resting here cause I was tasked with giving the coupon guy his pay. I was going to get up once I was notified he was done with his work. You should know this since I was the first person to finish the G path of the mech!"
"Oh." Seeing that the guy was about to be able to see, Bella squeezed a pepper over his eyes and ran away laughing.
"Dammit! So you were just doing it to be mean!" He tried chasing after Bella, only to end up running into a guy wearing a trench coat. When they collided, a cloud of dust appeared.
"Noah! That was my last bag of smart dust! Now I need to leave to get more."
"Austin, you were told you needed to stop snorting dust at work! Ow! I think it got in my eyes, I need to wash it out."
A flush was heard and someone walked out of the nearby restroom. Opening the door the guy who walked out looked around and saw the state Noah was in.
"Noah follow my voice I will help you wash your eyes."
Feeling like he got someone who cared, Noah was happy. After walking in Austin laughed.
"Paolo always forgets to wash his hands. Him helping is just going to make it worse, poor Noah."
...
Finishing his work and waiting on Noah to come back from the hospital after his eyes got abused by so many people, Lich was just sitting in the spot Noah was in bored.
Before Lich could doze off, he heard a loud voice.
"You dare try to steal my queen from me! I challenge you to a duel for her love!"