As part of casting this spell, you must make a ranged weapon attack against one creature within range, otherwise the spell fails. On a hit the target suffers the attack’s normal effects, and you form a magical, invisible link between the weapon’s ammunition, or the weapon itself if it’s a thrown weapon, and any other ammunition or weapons protruding from the target. The target takes an additional 1d8 piercing damage per linked ammunition or weapon. If the ammunition or weapon that activated the spell was under the influence of another spell, each linked ammunition or weapon replicates the effect of that spell if possible.
At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, each linked ammunition or weapon deals an additional 5 damage to the target for each spell slot above 4th.