# Delayed Healing

- **Level**: 3 evocation
- **Classes**: 
- **Casting Time**: 1 minute
- **Range**: Touch
- **Components**: V, M (a bloodstone worth 100 gp, which the spell consumes)
- **Duration**: Instantaneous
- **Source**: Deep Magic 5e

Touch a living creature (not a construct or undead) as you cast the spell. The next time that creature takes damage, it immediately regains hit points equal to 1d4 + your spellcasting ability modifier (minimum of 1).

**Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot.** When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the healing increases by 1d4 for each slot level above 3rd.