Dreams and Reality

Li Wei's reaction caught Caitlyn completely off guard.

She had expected Li Wei to dodge the unfolding blade. If not dodge, then at least use some wind magic to block it.

But she never imagined that he would change his style so abruptly.

Giving up on being a mage, and becoming a berserker instead!

He charged forward, unflinching, towards the blade, letting it tear his skin and cut into his flesh, without slowing his pace.

Caitlyn instinctively wanted to jump back, but...

"Windstorm Skull Splitter!"

A gust of wind instantly blew from behind her.

While this wind wasn't devastatingly destructive or terrifyingly sharp, it was enough to move Caitlyn's light and delicate figure when she was caught off guard.

"Wh-what?"

Before Caitlyn could react, she found herself pulled in front of Li Wei by the strange wind.

They had been several meters apart, but in an instant, they were face-to-face, fist-to-fist.

What happens when a sniper gets flanked by the enemy?

"Wind Fist!" Li Wei accelerated his fists with the help of the air currents, mercilessly striking at the close-range Caitlyn.

Caitlyn's skills were actually quite formidable.

After all, in this world, the dynamism of consciousness... was truly dynamic.

As long as your spirit is strong enough and your will is firm enough, even mortals can obtain terrifying physical abilities comparable to extraordinary beings through persistent training, struggle, and combat.

So even in close combat, Caitlyn might not be much worse than Li Wei was at the moment.

But the problem was...

She really didn't expect that the key to Li Wei's full-strength "Wind Fist" wasn't about "enchanting" the fist with wind.

But about using the wind swirling around the fist... to blow dust in the enemy's eyes before the fist even landed.

It was like throwing a handful of lime into the enemy's eyes before a fight.

And he even made it so the audience couldn't tell, only perceiving his moves as fierce and domineering, without losing any of their upright and honorable power.

"Ah!"

Just as Caitlyn was instinctively trying to defend, she felt a strong gust of air hit her eyes.

She felt a sharp pain in her eyes, and couldn't open them.

A blind player, ambushed by a warrior, the result was predictable.

"Lie down!"

Li Wei used a storm-enhanced left hook to knock Caitlyn's Hextech Rifle out of her hands.

Then, with another powerful right hook, he mercilessly knocked her to the ground.

He then followed up with a police hold he had learned from TV, using a knee to pin Caitlyn's back, locking both her hands behind her, and slamming her heavily to the ground.

"My apologies, Miss Caitlyn."

In just a moment, Miss Caitlyn, who had previously displayed her fierce skills, had fallen under Li Wei's "Wind Fist."

And she was firmly pinned beneath him by his hold, unable to move.

"Miss Caitlyn!"

The enforcers watched with wide, bloodshot eyes.

They didn't even care about their fear of Li Wei, and instinctively wanted to step forward to rescue Caitlyn.

But Li Wei frightened them with a single sentence: "Don't anyone move—or I'll kill her right now!"

The enforcers' faces turned green, and they immediately put down their guns.

And Li Wei... although he was injured in the previous battle, after that fierce and domineering performance, he now looked even more powerful, terrifying, and unfathomable.

Especially when everyone discovered that the hideous wounds on Li Wei's arm were slowly healing at a speed visible to the naked eye... that kind of awe and admiration for the strong became even more intense.

The situation was completely under Li Wei's control.

The enforcers were all afraid of him.

Only Caitlyn wasn't:

"Mr. Li Wei, please don't make another mistake!"

Even though Caitlyn was firmly pinned to the ground by Li Wei, she stubbornly turned her face from the ground, trying to look at him as she spoke:

"Piltover seeks peace, but it's not a place where any mage can come and act recklessly. If you insist on assaulting an officer and fleeing, then waiting for you will only be a stronger, more lethal pursuit team!"

"I advise you to stop now and cooperate with our investigation."

"I promise—we will find out the truth and give you justice!"

"The truth?" Li Wei couldn't help but sneer: "Miss Caitlyn, you still suspect... that what I'm saying isn't the truth, do you?"

Caitlyn remained silent.

But her stubborn expression said it all.

"Fine." Li Wei didn't mock her.

He simply asked Caitlyn with curiosity, "When you came, how did your superiors describe me?"

"Violently inflicting grievous bodily harm, openly robbing property, and possessing contraband," Caitlyn replied.

All of this was true; her superiors hadn't lied to them at all.

"Did they tell you why I beat up that fat guy?"

No. At least, Caitlyn didn't know yet.

"Because that fat guy is a gang leader! If I didn't hit him, that bastard would have dragged me back to be sold as a prostitute!" Li Wei coldly helped this young lady face reality.

"And your Piltover enforcers didn't show up when the Zaun gang was trying to kidnap me, but they appeared after I hit someone—and not to investigate the case, but to kill me!"

As he spoke, Li Wei glanced coldly at the young enforcer who "misfired."

"I...I didn't," the young enforcer said, terrified to the point of tears.

But he stubbornly refused to admit it, daring not to confess.

"Perhaps, it really was just a mistake. Or perhaps not." Caitlyn's attitude remained rigid: "Until the truth is investigated, no one can jump to conclusions."

"If the truth is as you say, then I will definitely not let those guilty escape the law."

"Good!" Li Wei smiled. "Since you still believe in your Piltover law so much, then I'll give you the truth right now!"

With that, he turned to the young enforcer:

"Officer, I'll ask you one last time—did you misfire out of nervousness, or were you instructed to do so? And if you were instructed, who instructed you?"

"I want you to say it yourself, for everyone to hear!"

"If you say it, you can live. If you don't...hehe."

Li Wei didn't say any more vicious threats, but slowly opened his palms and chanted loudly towards the sky:

"Winds, heed my call!"

The momentum was incomparably majestic. But what he summoned was only a breeze.

That's right, just a breeze, a very small one.

Li Wei's divine power was currently limited. Every time he used magic, he had to make trade-offs between the "intensity" and "scale" of the spell.

It was like a lump of dough of the same weight, which could be made into a fist-sized bun or spread into a pancake the size of a washbasin.

The wind wall he used before was the "bun," and the breeze he was conjuring now was the "pancake."

Although this breeze was weak...

Its range was large!

In an instant, Lina, Caitlyn, Viktor, Seraphine, the students, the enforcers—everyone present could clearly feel—

The sky seemed to have changed.

The airflow slowly passed through the windows, brushed their cheeks, and swirled and danced in the classroom.

Fallen leaves, dead branches, paper...everything that could float lightly drifted with the wind.

The invisible wind thus became visible, countless leaves danced, gathered, and swirled, eventually transforming into a winding, majestic Eastern dragon.

This wind dragon almost occupied the entire classroom. It flew above everyone's heads, slowly rotating around Li Wei. It seemed that some terrible and terrifying power was slowly gathering and brewing under his control...ready to erupt at any moment!

A storm seemed to be coming.

Being in the center of this storm, everyone felt their own insignificance.

The enforcers were even more directly frightened.

In fact, any professional mage could see at a glance that the "wind dragon" summoned by Li Wei was just a showy fake.

It was more of an entertainment trick than a combat skill.

But for these ordinary people who usually had almost no chance to deal with mages, Li Wei's move looked like the world was shaking and the situation was changing!

Not to mention the enforcers, the Zaun students' confidence in Li Wei and in the cause of the struggle was also soaring.

In an instant, several more students who had been hesitant developed faith in Janna's Ideology. Although it wasn't firm, it was at least a force.

"I said, this is the last chance," Li Wei issued the final ultimatum.

"I'll talk! I'll talk now!" the young enforcer cried, kneeling on the ground.

The unchanging stubbornness in Caitlyn's eyes finally couldn't be maintained.

Having always dreamed of becoming an enforcer, she finally saw the difference between dream and reality:

"It's Chief Marcos—"

"It was the Chief who told me to take you out while I was at it!"