"Didn't you see it?"

Loren showed a somewhat surprised expression, then looked at the girl behind the strong man, who was full of tear-streaked face and looked at herself timidly. He touched his chin: "Since you didn't see it, let it go. Just give the girl to me then. This guy lost me 5,000 gold coins. No matter how you put it, I have to at least take her back. I happen to need a maid to do chores at hand."

"Young man, this guy is wanted by our brotherhood. Are you implying that you want to go against our brotherhood?" The strong man looked at Loren with a gloomy face.

"Hehe..." Loren found it somewhat amusing: "Brotherhood, is that some kind of funny artist organization? Do you think that kind of thing can threaten me?"

Loren was a student of Valoran Academy, and compared to the huge Valoran Academy, the strong man's so-called brotherhood was indeed just a joke.

However, his tone was too contemptuous and too irritating, which made the strong man couldn't help but sneer:

"Even if you are a student of Valoran Academy, if you disappear in such a place, no one will know. Are you sure you still want to insist on taking this guy away?"

His words have now clearly carried a threatening tone, and if it were an ordinary student, he might have felt something wrong and retreated.

"I think I've said it, haven't I? This guy stole my gold coin card. Either you help her pay me back, or you hand her over to me." However, Loren still looked calm.

"You really don't know how high the sky is. Boy, don't think you're so great just because you're a student of Valoran Academy. Even the most talented person needs time to grow, and you, a freshman who hasn't been enrolled for a year, dare to say such things to us?" The strong man showed a cold smile: "I gave you a chance to escape, but it's a pity you missed it. Now even if you beg for mercy on your knees, it's too late."

As the strong man spoke, his two companions had already quietly surrounded Loren in the alley.

"Are you guys trying to fight me? Just for this little thief?" Loren showed an astonished look.

"Hehe, carrying a 5,000 gold coin card with you, I'm sure you have a lot of good stuff on you. Boy, don't blame us for being ruthless. Blame yourself for being too naive and inexperienced. If I don't eat such a fat sheep that comes to my door, I might as well go back home and farm."

Now the strong man revealed his intentions. As it turned out, when Loren came to him, he never thought about letting Loren go. The words he said to him earlier were just to buy time and block his way out. No one would find out about killing people and destroying evidence in such a secluded place. He had done so many similar deeds before. Although the target was Valoran's students, such a target was both high-risk and high-return. Moreover, Loren was too irritating, which gave the strong man enough reason to take action against Loren.

However, Loren couldn't help but laugh.

The strong man's face grew cold: "Boy, is there anything funny about death looming over you?"

"I was laughing because this kid is really unlucky, stealing into a thief's den. Well... it seems her luck is a bit low."

"Insane!" Loren's words made the strong man couldn't help but curse: "What are you guys waiting for? Catch him!"

As soon as the strong man finished speaking, the two ruffians behind Loren pounced on him directly, and one of them pulled out a short sword and stabbed it at Loren's back.

Although these two people did not practice fighting spirit, they were quite skilled in their own ways. Loren's weak physique definitely couldn't avoid their attacks.

But Loren was not a warrior, and he didn't need to dodge at all. He just raised his palm, whispered a magic syllable in his mouth, and activated the magic on a ring.

Wind protection.

The third-level wind protection magic was activated. The man who pulled out the short sword to stab Loren couldn't even get close to him and was thrown away by the hurricane that popped out of Loren's body, heavily hitting the wall and fainting on the spot.Additionally, another person was startled and abruptly jumped back, avoiding the counterattack of the Wind Guardian, but Loren just smiled at him. The spell in another ring was activated, and the Breaking Flame Fist was unleashed!

"If you can't dodge it, you'll be burned to a crisp!"

Loren's left hand ignited with intense flames, and he suddenly threw a punch at the thug who was fleeing. The flames attached to his hand instantly transformed into a huge fiery fist, rushing towards the thug. The speed of the fire fist was too fast, and it almost caught up with the frightened thug in the blink of an eye, swallowing him in a scream.

However, at this moment, the burly man who had been trampling on the girl somehow disappeared from his original position. He suddenly approached Loren, with a fist flashing with earthy yellow fighting energy aiming at Loren's abdomen.

"Damn magician, die!"

The burly man's attack was both fast and fierce. When Loren used magic to counterattack the first thug, he knew something was wrong and had started to gather his strength to launch a surprise attack on Loren. Loren was still in the motion of using the Breaking Flame Fist, and he watched as the attack broke through his Wind Guardian, heading straight for his abdomen. However, at this moment, a smile appeared on Loren's face.

"It's over."

He whispered, and the burly man's face showed a look of horror in the next moment. He found that he could not move at all. His fist, which was almost piercing through Loren with sharp fighting energy, was frozen in mid-air.

"Why is this happening?!"

The burly man maintained his stance of throwing a punch, but his facial expressions could still move. He looked at Loren with a twisted expression and yelled.

"Ah, you really are an inexperienced fellow, haven't you even seen entangling magic before?" Loren sighed, and waved his hand, revealing a ring carved with thorny patterns on his index finger that glowed slightly.

"Although it's a delayed activation 'Paralysis Thorn', it's more than enough to deal with a small fry like you who only knows brute force."

As Loren spoke, a basketball-sized flame suddenly formed in his hand. The paralyzed man's fighting energy was unable to be used, making the fireball spell a deadly attack if it hit him.

"When exactly did…" The burly man's face was filled with terror, as he didn't even realize when he had been affected. However, Loren showed a wicked smile that seemed like a devil to him: "No, don't! You can't kill me, I'm a member of the Brotherhood. If you kill me, our organization will definitely pursue and seek revenge on you! As long as you don't kill me, I can give you many benefits, gold coins! Precious items! Materials! I can give you all of these!"

As Loren's flame drew closer, the burly man's mental defenses collapsed. The scorching heat of the flame already curled his hair, and he could even smell the burnt odor of his hair being roasted by the fire.

Loren laughed at the pleading burly man and took out several more magic rings from his pocket, flashing them in front of him, "That's exactly what garbage like you should say when they're about to die, but do I look like a person who lacks money?"

In the desperate eyes of the burly man, Loren increased the output of the fire: "So, can you rest in peace now? Don't worry, the flame will instantly cook your brain, so you won't feel too much pain."

"Ahhhh! Don't!!"

The burly man stared in terror as the flames in Loren's hand grew larger and larger, and the scorching sensation seemed to burn his eyeballs like charred coal.

However, in the end, the fireball extinguished.

"Damn... I still can't bring myself to do it."

Loren looked at the unconscious burly man who had been scared to the point of passing out, and couldn't help but spit on him, tossing the now urine-soaked man onto the ground.

Although he had said as much, Loren couldn't bring himself to kill the man in the end. Coming from the modern era, he still couldn't get over the taboo of taking a human life, even if these people were nothing more than despicable scum.Killing in the game and killing in reality are two different concepts.

"You guys got lucky." Loren searched all the belongings from a few gangsters, and after putting those items, including his own gold coin card, into his pocket, he walked towards the demon girl who was lying on the ground, curled up in fear.

“Well, little one, now it's time to talk about our business. You stole my gold coin card. How are you going to compensate me?” Loren looked at the demon girl on the ground with a smile, but as soon as he finished speaking, the girl closed her eyes and passed out.

"..."

"What an evasive answer."

Loren looked at the unconscious girl, sighed helplessly, and then picked her up and left the alleyway.

As for the gangsters, Loren left them to fend for themselves. If they died from their injuries, he wouldn't feel any guilt, because he had already shown them mercy. Moreover, these guys were not worth mourning.

As for the possibility of them taking revenge if they survived, Loren wasn't worried. He was a student of the Valoran Academy. The gangsters might dare to attack him in a secluded place, but they would never dare to attack him in public. Besides, if they managed to survive, they would surely flee the capital immediately. For them, the fact that Loren didn't report the incident to the academy was already a blessing.