Your hand decays and creates five rays of necromantic bolts and shoots them at targets within range. You can shoot them at one target or several.

Make a ranged spell attack for each ray. On a hit, the target takes 2d6 Necrotic damage. Then the target maximum Hp is reduced by half the damage rounded down. This effect ends after a short or long rest, or treated with a lesser restoration spell or greater.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5rd level or higher, you create one additional bolt for each slot level above 4nd.