Rising Winds!

"Fighting? Robbery?" Lina and her classmates were also stunned, reacting, "Bro, what exactly did you do?"

"It's nothing, I came here to tell you about this anyway," Li Wei said, looking helpless as he prepared to explain.

But the Enforcers clearly didn't intend to give him time to chat with family and friends:

"Li Wei, this is your final warning—hands up, don't resist!"

"Or we'll open fire right now!"

The Enforcers slowly approached, guns raised, their fingers lightly resting on the triggers, ready to fire.

The air instantly became tense.

It seemed like the next second, shots would ring out and someone would be dead.

"Bro!" Lina called out worriedly, but didn't dare approach.

The other students were the same.

Because they were all from Zaun, and they knew how the Enforcers usually treated Zaunites.

Forget not cooperating during an arrest, even if you were too slow to cooperate, didn't cooperate perfectly, or made a small movement that seemed suspicious, the Enforcers would unhesitatingly shoot you dead.

As for whether they shot the right person after killing them, that wasn't a problem the Enforcers needed to consider.

Runeterra didn't have any saying like "Zaunite lives are precious," so dying was just considered Zaunites' own bad luck.

"Mr. Li Wei, although I don't know what happened... please cooperate with the Enforcers first. I'll find a way to save you later," Viktor said, seeing the urgency of the situation, and promptly offered his advice.

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

"Stand in the corner!"

"Stay away from those students!"

The Enforcers remained vigilant, simply raising their guns and shouting coldly.

"Yes." Li Wei obediently cooperated, walking to the empty corner of the classroom, making it easier for them to aim.

It looked like he had already surrendered.

And he really didn't plan to resist.

This was the conclusion Li Wei had reached after careful consideration:

Being arrested for fighting, robbery, and possession of Shimmer sounded serious. But he had Seraphine backing him. Even if Seraphine couldn't protect him, he had just made friends with Viktor.

Viktor was a close friend of Piltover's big star Jayce, and a student of Councilor Heimerdinger. Although he was unknown, his influence was not small.

Even if Viktor couldn't protect him... so what? At worst, he'd go to jail.

As long as Janna's faith was still spreading outside, and Janna's power was still increasing, then probably in a few days, no prison in Piltover would be able to hold him.

How could a prison made of stone hold the wind?

So, after weighing the pros and cons, Li Wei didn't plan to resist at all.

Otherwise, if he lost the fight, he'd end up in the morgue, and if he won... it would only lead to a more intense manhunt, even dragging the newly formed Wind Taker Association into the Enforcers' attention.

This conflicted with Li Wei's three-step strategy of "establishing a foothold in Piltover, accumulating strength, and returning to Zaun."

To ensure the success of his career, he'd rather go to jail for a few days.

However, even though Li Wei had raised his hands and obediently stood in the corner of the classroom, the Enforcers still pointed their guns at him as if facing a formidable enemy, unwilling to lower them at all.

"Li Wei! Are you carrying any weapons?"

"No," Li Wei answered honestly.

"What about Shimmer?"

"That... I do."

The Enforcers immediately became more vigilant.

A bottle of Shimmer could turn a Zaunite waste into a Zaunite superhuman at any time, and its danger was no less than a gun.

"Take out the Shimmer and drop it!"

They pointed their guns at Li Wei, signaling him to be obedient.

"Okay." Li Wei raised his hands to show that he had no malicious intent.

"I'll take it out now."

"Slowly, show us your pockets!"

"Okay, you see, I'm just taking out the bottle."

Li Wei carefully showed his cooperation, and then, facing the muzzles of the Enforcers' guns, he moved in slow motion, ten times slower than normal, lowering his hand inch by inch, and slowly reaching into his pocket.

But just as his fingers slowly reached into his pocket—

Before he even touched anything, a young Enforcer "panicked" and shouted:

"Everyone be careful—"

"He's, he's pulling out a gun!"

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

Holy shit, I knew it!

You Piltover Enforcers can do this too!

Sure enough, just as the young Enforcer shouted, he squeezed the trigger.

In an instant, flames erupted, bullets burst forth, and the sound was deafening.

That single shot was like the starting gun for a race.

The young Enforcer's "twitch" triggered his highly strung colleagues to "twitch" as well.

Seven or eight people twitching in unison unleashed a hail of deadly bullets almost instantly. The bullets lined up, weaving into a net, and mercilessly hurtled towards Li Wei.

Almost all the Enforcers opened fire.

Only the youngest and most inexperienced female Enforcer, who was being carefully protected by her colleagues, managed to quickly regain her composure after the initial shock and didn't blindly join in the shooting.

But it didn't change anything.

Would missing one bullet really make a difference?

In that instant, Lina, Viktor, Seraphine, and even the students were stunned by the sudden turn of events, unable to even think.

Even many of the Enforcers who instinctively emptied their magazines were caught off guard.

Their thoughts couldn't keep up with the speed of the bullets.

But everyone knew:

Li Wei was doomed!

However, in that split second...

The wind began to blow.

The moment the bullets left the barrel, Li Wei sensed the disturbance in the air and instantly determined the direction from which they were coming.

His divinely enhanced body exploded with incredible speed, allowing him to dodge the bullets aimed at his chest and head, his body sinking heavily downwards!

But that wasn't enough.

He wasn't fast enough to completely avoid the bullets.

Then he would make the bullets go around him!

The Azure Finch chirped softly, and a fierce wind began to swirl.

"Rising Winds!"

A gust of wind suddenly appeared in front of Li Wei.

The airflow was chaotic yet focused, rising from the ground and roaring towards the sky.

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

Although this wind wall wasn't solid enough, and far from strong enough to directly block bullets...

When the incoming bullets encountered this rising, turbulent gust of wind, they inevitably trembled in the gale, their trajectories shifting uncontrollably.

They narrowly grazed over Li Wei's head, shooting wildly towards the windows and walls behind him in a Brownian motion-like trajectory.

"W-What?!"

The Enforcers were all dumbfounded.

"Janna above—"

What were they seeing?

Li Wei, a Zaun apprentice, had actually summoned a wind wall out of thin air?

How could he be an ordinary Zaun apprentice?

"This intelligence is wrong!"

The lead officer's face turned green:

"He's not an ordinary person at all..."

"He's clearly a mage!"

At that moment, all the Enforcers felt like they had been screwed over by their superiors.

A mage, what did it mean to be a mage?

They were noble spellcasters!

And even though Li Wei had only displayed a small wind wall, which didn't seem very powerful...

How many trump cards did a mage have? Were they willing to bet their lives on it?

What's more... the terrifying thing about mages wasn't just their own strength, but also their connections.

You had to know, there were very few naturally awakened magical geniuses in this world. And even those who awakened magic rarely had the ability to control it freely.

Like Seraphine, she was born with magic, but after more than ten years, she still couldn't cast any spells.

So, most ordinary people who encounter mages freely casting spells have undergone professional magical training.

Magical training implies a lineage or tradition.

A lineage means the mage has a teacher, fellow disciples, uncles, aunts, grandmasters... all sorts of messy relatives.

Offending one mage is like offending a whole group of them.

They start small, but they keep coming, and they get stronger each time. Who wouldn't be afraid of that?

These Piltover Enforcers are just ordinary people; they don't want to become mortal enemies with a mage for no reason.

At least, not with just the few of them here.

They definitely need to call for backup!

"L-Li Wei, sir..."

"We seem to have a misunderstanding."

The Enforcers' attitudes instantly softened.

"Misunderstanding?" Li Wei pointed to the bullet holes above, where the smoke hadn't even cleared:

"You call this a misunderstanding?"

"I-It really is a misunderstanding!" The young Enforcer who fired the first shot was practically in tears. "I was just too nervous, that's why..."

"No!" Li Wei coldly stared at him.

At this point, he couldn't back down even if he wanted to:

"I can sense it. Your breathing was very steady before, as steady as a hunter."

"You weren't nervous at all—"

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