With a command and gesture a cloud of translucent azure blades coalesce from the air around you and hover nearby.
On cast, you start with twenty-four blades, and as part of the cast or as a bonus action once during your turn you can expend any number of blades to make a ranged spell attack against a number of targets up to the spell slot levels expended for the cast. On a hit, a target takes 1 Slashing damage, and it can be hit by multiple blades; if a target is hit by 3 or fewer blades, then it only takes the flat damage. If a target is hit by 4 or more blades, then it takes Slashing damage of a die closest to the number of blades used rounded down+spellcasting ability modifier, with the remainder being flat damage; i.e., a target hit by 5 blades would take 1d4+spellcasting ability modifier+1 Slashing damage, while a target hit by 9 blades could take either 2d4 or 1d8+spellcasting ability modifier+1 Slashing damage, or 1d6+spellcasting ability modifier+3 Slashing damage, and so on. A target cannot take multiple instances of groups of flat damage. All attacks with the blades hit at the same time.
At the end of your turn if your have at least 1 blade remaining, you gain additional blades equal to your proficiency, up to a total of the original number of blades you started with on cast. When cast at a level above 1st, for each spell slot expended above 1st you gain an additional 6 blades on cast. The spell ends at the end of its duration or when you have expended all of the blades.
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