Starting at 2nd level, you are surrounded by invisible, necrotic spores that are harmless until you unleash them on a creature nearby. When a creature you can see moves within 3 meters of you or starts its turn there, your spores deal 1d4 necrotic damage to that creature unless it succeeds on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. A creature can take this damage no more than once per turn. The necrotic damage increases to 1d6 at 6th level, 1d8 at 10th level, and 1d10 at 14th level.

Also at 2nd level, you gain the ability to channel magic into your spores. As an action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape feature to awaken those spores, rather than transforming into a beast form, and you gain 4 temporary hit points for each level you have in this class. While this feature is active, you gain the following benefits:

• When you deal your Halo of Spores damage, roll the damage die a second time and add it to the total.
• Your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6 necrotic damage to any target they hit.

These benefits last for 10 minutes, until you lose all these temporary hit points, or until you use your Wild Shape again.

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of a beast. While in animal shape, you can't talk or cast spells. You take on the game statistics of your beast form—excluding your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. When your beast form drops to 0 hit points, you revert to your normal form, with the number of hit points you had before transforming. If your hit points dropped below 0 in beast form, that damage is applied after you revert. Spells that require concentration are not broken by turning into an animal. Your equipment merges into your animal form and won't have any effect until you revert.

You can use this feature twice. You regain expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

At 6th level, your spores gain the ability to infest a corpse and animate it. Using a reaction point, a dead beast or humanoid that is Small or Medium within 3 meters of you can be animated, causing it to stand up immediately with 1 HP. The creature remains animate for 1 hour, after which time it collapses and dies.

In combat, the zombie obeys your mental commands, and the only action it can take is the Attack action, making one melee attack.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

At 10th level, you gain the ability to seed an area with deadly spores. As a bonus action while your Symbiotic Entity feature is active, you can hurl spores up to 9 meters away, where they swirl in a 3 cubic meter cube for 1 minute. The spores disappear early if you use this feature again, if you dismiss them as a bonus action, or if your Symbiotic Entity feature is no longer active.

Whenever a creature moves into the cube or starts its turn there, that creature takes your Halo of Spores damage, unless the creature succeeds on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. A creature can take this damage no more than once per turn. While the cube of spores persists, your Halo of Spores remain dormant.

At 14th level, the fungal spores in your body alter you: you can't be blinded, frightened, or poisoned, and any critical hit against you counts as a normal hit instead unless you're incapacitated.