Encapsulate Harm

You attempt to capture the essence of pain that you or a creature you see within range have taken, storing it inside the glass bead. The bead absorbs up to 20 points of damage. It sheds dim light in a 10-foot radius.

As an action on your turn, you can make a ranged spell attack by throwing it or hurling it with a sling. On a hit, the target takes force damage equal to the stored damage. Hit, miss, or after the spell ends, the bead shatters.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the bead can absorb an additional 10 points of damage for each slot level above 2nd.