Loya still wore the same style of café server's uniform as Kallen;
But this time, she had let her hair down. Her shoulder-length golden hair made her look like an exquisite porcelain doll.
The next moment,
Loya floated up, almost level with Qi He on the platform.
Qi He looked at her and smiled. "I'm very happy to see you back."
"Me too, Grandpa."
"I did create you, after all. Let me off this once?"
"You created me, but you also destroyed me. Neither of us owes the other anything."
Their reunion could not have been briefer. It soon ended, and Loya extended a finger toward Qi He.
The copper coin released a dark yellow glow that turned into a vortex.
The arm Qi He had used to hold up the coin, now immobilized, exploded outright. Part of his soul split off with it. Faced with a mortal crisis, the Law Expounder showed his decisiveness.
Then he rapidly retreated, erecting three Law Expounder's Shields before him as he went.
The four Order Squad members who failed to retreat in time were dragged straight into the center of the vortex. It did not swallow them, merely compressed them into four clouds of bloody mist.
Loya formed a square seal with her hands. A withered yellow hand emerged from the vortex, long purple nails on its five fingers. Its arm seemed infinitely long as it reached for the retreating Qi He, instantly piercing the three Law Expounder's Shields he had erected. Once it seized his neck, the hand exploded!
Boom!
Qi He was blown to pieces.
The copper coin floated back to Loya, settling before her chest. Her gaze swept her surroundings, and the coin turned along with it.
Suddenly,
Loya looked up.
The barrier above had not been removed. Though it