Cast Some Spells

Taking a deep breath, I willed my mana to travel down my arm and into my hands, watching as the goblin got closer and trying my best to ignore the raging hard on it was sporting, the green skinned monster lusting after me and then some.

There was a darker, tiny part of me that wanted to give it a try, to let myself be raped by a monster and feel what it would be like to have something that large attached to something that wild and deranged fuck me...

But I shook that thought out of my head and instead focused on the thing that Ulya had helped show me, taking the magic in my hand and imagining a burning, brilliant, explosive ball of flame shooting out of my palm and colliding with the head of this monster.

Shaping the magic was surprisingly easy as I imagined all the various fireballs I had seen in manga, games, anime and more, creating a tangible thing that hurtled towards the green skinned monster at a high speed.

It was about the size of a golfball and not as powerful as I would have liked, but seeing that I had actually managed to cast an offensive spell was exciting, especially after it exploded upon contact and blew a large chunk out of the goblin's head, killing it instantly.

It was definitely still a potent, deadly attack, but the various gigantic explosions that shook the world or destroyed cities made this seem pathetic... though likely so much more realistic for an average mage to utilize.

The fact I could kill a goblin with magic was already so damn cool, especially because I had never had a power like this ever, be it in the form of a gun or some other kind of explosive; it was just so cool even if it left the goblin in a disgusting state.

But hey I was getting better at seeing bodies now, so that was also pretty cool~!

At least since I was no longer expelling the contents of my stomach at random points whenever I saw a body... that was the cool part, the corpse wasn't cool at all.

It was - in fact - quite hot thanks to its face being burnt off, but that was besides the point since this meant I could do magic and I could do it kinda sorta not really that well, and that was an improvement from me not being able to do it at all!

Baby steps and all that, but as another goblin charged at me with a snarl I decided to try another spell, one that was a bit more complex in nature; instead of an exploding ball made from fire I wanted to go the opposite route and make a sharpened whip of water to cut this goblin's flesh.

Instead of a ball I needed a long strand of mana that was connected together, and it would take a little more control and power to make but it would let me know if I was understanding the basics well enough.

I could feel the mana flowing through me again, and this time when it spilled out of my palm it remained connected, becoming what I wanted it to be and leaving droplets behind as parts of it were dropped away, unable to remain connected completely.

Still there was enough for me to crack it and lacerate the goblin's chest, shocking it as the water whip cut through the air and smacked against its body only to be yanked back as I prepared another strike.

It tried to block it this time, but thanks to it being made from water the whip simply moved 'through' the goblin's block, landing another - yet much weaker - hit on the goblin's chest and driving it back another step.

The next hit stuck its neck and tore open a long, jagged gash that caused it to stumble about, bleeding profusely and dying slowly as it stared at me with hatred and fear, something that shocked me a little as I realized that these monsters did have various emotions, mortal emotions.

It shouldn't have been too much of a surprise that something that could show clear signs of lust, anger and interest might have the emotional range to feel scared, but it was still very off putting to think that maybe these little greenies were just a few generations away from being more like humans and other mortals...

Though that wouldn't exactly be something I wanted to happen if they were as terrible and deranged as they always appeared; just because they could potentially become 'better' doesn't mean they should, nor does it mean we have to accept it.

Besides, for now it was easier to write them off as monsters and nothing more so that I could cope with the death just a little bit more than before, so I didn't think much more of this and instead turned to the last goblin and flicked my wrist towards it, sending the whip straight for its throat.

With another one dead, we were back to a peaceful cavern that was filled with various veins of ore that needed to be mined, so Ulya and I got back to work mining everything up until Izzy came back, the Reptilekin over whatever emotions had been driving her crazy from earlier.

Getting all of the ore we could now that there were three of us working at the same time was easy, and unlike yesterday we extracted just a little bit more and decided to endure some 'suffering' of having to haul up a lot more weight to the surface so long as it meant better deals for us.

Whatever we could get would be nice to have, and the extras would just go back into our storage vault to be eventually sold back in the city for an incredible profit, one that was inevitably worth every moment of our 'suffering'.

Especially since I now knew how to cast magic and could spend some money to get some more things to do magic even better, or cooler armor and maybe even a new weapon!