"Taking on eight alone and not falling behind—no wonder you're someone I had my eye on."
As Li Weide passed Tom, his left hand easily slipped through the Shield Charm surrounding Tom and gave his shoulder a firm pat.
"What are you doing here?" Tom asked with a stiff expression.
"Well... I happened to be wandering around here, then I sensed your magical fluctuations were especially intense, so I couldn't help coming over to take a look... Oh, that Levicorpus was used pretty well."
As he spoke, Li Weide watched the unlucky people sprawled about with great interest.
"Where's Annie?" Tom noticed that Li Weide had come alone and could not help asking.
Annie clearly had a problem, and her target seemed to be Li Weide. Tom had naturally noticed that as well.
That was why he was curious why Annie was not by his side.
"Well... when we passed a staircase, it happened to move, and she happened not to keep up, so we temporarily split up," Li Weide said casually.
Tom knew very well what Li Weide was capable of, so Annie had most likely been quietly shaken off somewhere along the way.
Sure enough, that tiny bit of concern he had felt earlier had been completely unnecessary. A scourge lived for a thousand years—how could this guy possibly stumble so easily?
"Are you two treating us like we're invisible?" the older student said coldly.
He had tolerated these two bastards for long enough. If he had not seen Li Weide casually cast a Shield Charm, making him somewhat wary, he would have already hurled several nasty curses at them.
"Who are you?" Li Weide asked.
"Andre Shafiq," the older student answered with a proud look on his face.
"So you're from the Shafiq family..." Li Weide nodded,