Remove Core Protection

Remove Core Protection is an administrator command: it strips a unit of its core protection. A shell of light cracks around it and shatters; its bared core then floats above its head, and for twelve seconds everything that hits it deals half again as much — your elements, your allies' swords, arrows, everything.

The incantation

System Call. Remove Core Protection.

• It needs System Control Authority 40 (see System and Object Control Authority).
• No element is needed. If you were holding some, they are lost: the command closes the incantation.
• It fires at once, with no closing word.

The target

The unit traced earlier in the incantation, at any distance in the dimension; otherwise the creature you are looking at, in line of sight, 24 blocks away at most (a cone of about 12°). Never yourself.

How it unfolds

1. The protection cracks: three quarters of a second during which it still holds.
2. It shatters: until the end of the 12 seconds, every bit of damage the target receives is multiplied by 1.5, whatever the source.
3. The mark fades after 12 s, or sooner if the target dies or you die.

Stacking

See also: System spells.