Slimes

As a true classic of the genre, the first enemy he came across while strolling through the woods was slimes. He was thankfully able to spot them from afar, the flashy balls of colorful jelly being hard to miss in the green and brown landscape.

K-T had no idea what the aggro range was for these monsters, nor if he could fight them one at a time without getting rushed by the dozen he could see. On top of that his spells had a maximum range.

Well his spell more honestly. As a beginner mage he had only 3 spells. To cast anything he had to be holding a staff, rod or wand, two handed for the staff which was his only option so far. His first spell was Static Bolt it was shooting a tiny bolt of lightning at a target up to 50ft for 5% of his mana bar. The second one Ardent Rod would light the tip of his staff in magic fire to use as a torch, light fires, keep him warm or add fire damage to his attacks, more of an utility spell, for 10% of his mana and an upkeep of 1% every minute he would keep it on. The last one and the priciest, Cool Armor would give him an armor of solid ice that would have the same hp as he has and break away as he got hit instead of getting hurt. It cost a whooping 30% of his mana to cast and 3% per minute upkeep, but it also blocked 1 to 3 damage per attack received.

The good news was that casting those was pretty fast according to his menu, so he could wait to be in trouble to cast the armor and not waste a third of his mana on something he might not need if the enemy is too weak or too slow to get to him before dying.

Mindless slimes were a blessing for K-T, he could focus on the fight to come without having to worry about the fact that his dick was hanging out. And if this game had a weird RPG logic he might even loot items from those critters, getting him closer to his goal of getting real clothes.

He stayed at maximum range of the slime that was the farthest from the group and his staff firmly grabbed in both hands he cast Static Bolt on it. The casting animation had hundreds of tiny motes of energy gathering from his body and flowing in his staff, the spell shooting from the tip of it. It was very cool and there was even the sound of crackling of the electricity. K-T wasn't really sure if it was supposed to feel so good, but he made a mental note of reporting it to his sister, he could easily imagine people getting addicted to caster classes.

The spell had auto-aim and shot true, eating away just bellow half of the slime's health. This was not ideal, if an average shot dealt that amount of damage, it would mean 2 to 3 spells to kill the slimes, the third one wasting a full cast for a tiny sliver of health. Or he'd have to try to finish them off with the staff, but it meant letting them get closer and mages often sucked in melee in most video games.

Without further analysis he cast a second spell on the slime which had started moving his way, thankfully alone. The nice feeling of the first cast wasn't a fluke, it was feeling really good. K-T wasn't sure if it was normal or an effect of the energy flowing on his bare skin rather than the clothes his avatar should wear, but with his second attack he was feeling his dick tingle. If he was in a drawn out fight, getting hard wouldn't be a risk but an inevitability at this rate.

The second shot did the trick and the blue ball of jelly popped, dropping only a shiny blue sphere on the ground resting in a small puddle of blue liquid. Sadly it was too close to the other monsters for K-T to go pick it up.

He spent the next 5 minutes to clear out an area wide enough that it was safe to go in and look at the 6 orbs that had dropped. He was now rock hard and a bit out of breath, the effect the casting had on him was cumulative and wasn't wearing off very quickly. In the slow department was also his mana regen in the 5 minutes of fighting he had only recovered 10% of his mana leaving him at a rather low 35%. The good news was that he was already half way through his first level and that a bit more fighting would pr award him a well needed boost to his stats.

He carefully approached the cleared area, having avoided any close encounters so far with his sniping technique.