Electricity crackles around your skin, providing both offence and defense. For the duration of the spell, any creature that hits you with a melee attack takes 2d4 lightning damage. If that creatures is wearing metal armor, they take an additional 1d4 lightning damage. Additionally, any creature that grapples you or ends its turn touching you takes 1d4 damage at the end of its turn.
Whenever you make a melee attack against a creature within 5 feet of you, electric energy arcs off your skin, dealing an additional 2d4 lightning damage on a hit. You deal an additional 1d4 if the target is wearing metal armor.
Whenever you cast this spell using a spell slot 3rd level or higher, the lighting damage increases by 1d4 for each spell slot level above 2nd. This damage includes the additional damage for targets wearing metal armor.
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