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"Fighting? Robbery?" Lina and the other students reacted in shock as well. "Bro, what exactly did you do?"

"It's nothing. I came here because I wanted to talk to you about this." Li Wei was just about to explain with a helpless look on his face.

But the Enforcers clearly had no intention of giving him time to chat with his family and friends.

"Li Wei, this is your final warning—put your hands up and stop resisting!"

"Otherwise, we'll open fire now!"

The Enforcers advanced slowly with their guns raised, their fingers lightly poised over the triggers.

The air instantly grew tense.

It seemed as though gunfire would erupt and someone would die the next second.

"Bro!" Lina cried out worriedly, but she did not dare approach him at all.

The other students were the same.

Because they were all Zaunites. They all knew how Enforcers usually treated Zaunites.

Forget refusing to cooperate during an arrest—even if someone responded too slowly, failed to follow instructions precisely, or made a suspicious movement, the Enforcers would not hesitate to shoot them dead.

As for whether they had killed the right person afterward, that was not something the Enforcers needed to consider.

There was no "Zaunite lives matter" in Runeterra. If they died, they could only count themselves unlucky for being Zaunites.

"Mr. Li Wei, I don't know what happened, but please cooperate with the Enforcers first. I'll find a way to save you afterward." Seeing the urgency of the situation, Viktor spoke up to persuade him.

"Mm, I understand." Seeing that these bastards were really about to pull the trigger, Li Wei had no choice but to raise his hands in cooperation.

"Get over to the corner!"

"Stay away from those students!"

The Enforcers still did not lower their guard, merely pointing their guns at him as they shouted coldly.

"Yes." Li Wei obediently cooperated, walking to the corner of the empty classroom so they could aim at him more easily.

It looked like he had surrendered.

And he truly had no intention of resisting.

This was the conclusion Li Wei had reached after weighing his options.

Being arrested for fighting, robbery, and possessing Shimmer sounded serious, but Seraphine had his back. Even if Seraphine could not protect him, he had just become friends with Viktor.

Viktor was the close friend of Piltover superstar Jayce and the student of Councilor Professor Heimerdinger. Though he was not well known, his influence was far from insignificant.

Even if Viktor could not protect him, so what? At worst, he would go to prison.

As long as Janna's faith continued spreading outside and her power kept growing, it probably would not be more than a few days before no prison in Piltover could hold him.

How could a stone prison cage the wind?

So after weighing everything, Li Wei had no intention of resisting at all.

Otherwise, if he lost, he would end up in the morgue. If he won, he would only invite an even more intense manhunt, perhaps even dragging the newly established Wind Taker Association into the Enforcers' attention.

That would conflict with Li Wei's three-step strategy of "establishing a foothold in Piltover, building strength, and returning to Zaun."

To ensure the success of his cause, he would rather spend a few days in prison.

But even though Li Wei had raised his hands and cooperatively moved to the classroom corner, the Enforcers still pointed their guns at him as if facing a great enemy, showing no intention of lowering them.

"Li Wei! Are you carrying any weapons?"

"No." Li Wei answered honestly.

"What about Shimmer?"

"That... yes."

The Enforcers immediately became even more vigilant.

A bottle of Shimmer could turn a worthless Zaunite into a Zaunite superhuman at any time. It was no less dangerous than a gun.

"Take out the Shimmer and throw it away!"

They gestured at Li Wei with their guns, signaling for him to obey.

"Okay." Li Wei kept both hands raised to show that he meant no harm.

"I'll take it out now."

"Slowly. Show us your pockets!"

"Mm, watch carefully. I'm only taking out the vial."

Li Wei carefully demonstrated his cooperation. Then, facing the Enforcers' gun barrels, he lowered his hands inch by inch in movements slowed to one-tenth speed, before slowly reaching toward his pocket.

But at the very moment his fingers slowly slipped into his pocket—

Before he had even touched anything, a young Enforcer cried out in "terror."

"Watch out—"

"H-he's drawing a gun!"

"Huh?" Li Wei's expression froze instantly.

Fuck, I knew it!

Piltover Enforcers use this trick too!

Sure enough, the moment that young Enforcer shouted, he viciously pulled the trigger.

Muzzle flash bloomed, bullets burst forth, and the gunshot thundered through the room.

That shot was like the starter pistol of a race.

The young Enforcer's little "flinch" immediately made his highly tense colleagues "flinch" as well.

Seven or eight people flinched together, unleashing a deadly rain of bullets almost instantly. The bullets formed rows, wove into a net, and screamed mercilessly toward Li Wei.

Nearly every Enforcer opened fire.

Only the youngest and most immature-looking female Enforcer, who stood firmly shielded behind the other Enforcers, managed to steady herself after her instinctive panic instead of blindly firing along with them.

But that changed nothing.

Would one fewer bullet mean no one would die?

In that instant, whether it was Lina, Viktor, Seraphine, or the students, all of them were stunned by the sudden turn of events. They did not even have time to think.

Even many of the Enforcers who had instinctively emptied their magazines could not react in time themselves.

Their thoughts could not keep up with the bullets.

But everyone knew one thing.

Li Wei was dead for sure!

Yet at that very instant—

The wind rose.

The moment the bullets left their barrels, Li Wei sensed the disturbance in the airflow and instantly judged the direction from which they were coming.

His body, strengthened by divine power, burst forth with astonishing speed, allowing him to evade the chest and head shots his enemies had locked onto as he threw himself heavily downward!

But that was not enough.

He was still not fast enough to evade every bullet completely.

Then he would make the bullets go around him!

Blue Bird gave a soft chirp, and a fierce gale whirled into being.

"Rising Winds!"

A violent gust sprang up from nowhere before Li Wei.

The airflow was wild yet concentrated, surging upward from the ground before howling straight toward the sky.

It was as if a wall of raging wind had risen from the earth, invisibly protecting him!

This wind wall was still not solid enough, nowhere near strong enough to stop bullets head-on.

But when the bullets tearing through the air met that fierce rising current, they inevitably trembled with the gale, their trajectories shifting uncontrollably.

They narrowly grazed past Li Wei's head, flying wildly toward the windows and walls behind him in erratic paths almost like Brownian motion.

"W-what?!"

Every Enforcer stood dumbfounded.

"Janna above—"

What had they just seen?

Li Wei, a Zaunite Apprentice, had actually summoned a wind wall out of thin air?

Could this possibly be an ordinary Zaunite Apprentice?

"The intel is wrong!"

The lead officer's face turned green.

"He's no ordinary man..."

"He's clearly a mage!"

At this moment, every Enforcer felt that their superiors had set them up.

A mage—what did that mean?

That was a noble spellcaster!

And although Li Wei had only displayed a small wind wall that did not seem especially powerful—

Who knew how many trump cards a mage had? Would they dare gamble with their lives?

Not to mention, a mage's terrifying aspect was not merely their personal strength, but also their connections.

After all, naturally awakened magical prodigies were rare in this world. And even among those who awakened magic, very few could control it freely.

Take Seraphine. She had been born with awakened magic, yet after more than ten years, she still could not cast a single skill.

Therefore, most mages ordinary people encountered who could cast spells freely had received professional magical training.

And magical training meant having a lineage.

Having a lineage meant that a mage had teachers, fellow disciples, senior uncles, senior brothers, grandmasters... all kinds of messy relatives.

Offending one mage meant offending a whole group of mages.

You beat the young one, the old one came out. Then even stronger ones kept arriving. Who would not be afraid of that?

These Piltover Enforcers were only ordinary people. They had no desire to inexplicably become mortal enemies with a mage.

At least, the few of them definitely did not dare.

They had to call for reinforcements!

"M-Mr. Li Wei."

"There may have been a misunderstanding."

The Enforcers' attitude instantly became much gentler.

"A misunderstanding?" Li Wei pointed at the smoking bullet holes above his head.

"You call this a misunderstanding?"

"It r-really was a misunderstanding..." The young Enforcer who had fired first was nearly in tears. "I was just too nervous, so..."

"No." Li Wei looked at him coldly.

At this point, even if he did not want to resist, he had no choice.

"I can sense it. Your breathing was steady the entire time—steady like a hunter's."

"You were never nervous—"

"You were ordered by someone to come here specifically to kill me!"