Adventurers are warned not to deflect projectiles if they are fireballs, as they explode on touch. Every time the player reflects the Twilight Lich's projectiles back at it, it will remove one of its shields. During the first phase, the Twilight Lich can be seen holding a Twilight Scepter. Quick-thinking adventurers report that the projectiles can be deflected with a properly-timed swing, similar to deflecting a Ghast's fireballs. Both the Twilight Lich and the duplicates fire blue-green projectiles that look like Ender Pearls. The Lich itself is protected by a rotating ring of shields. In its first phase, the Twilight Lich summons shadowy, invincible duplicates. Thus, it may potentially be a fire scepter of some sort.This former wizard retains a wide variety of attacks, which it deploys in three basic phases. This unknown scepter appears similar to the others, but with an orange head. When viewing the items.png file for Twilight Forest, four scepters are seen the Scepter of Twilight, the Scepter of Life Draining, the Zombie Scepter and a sprite for an unknown scepter that has not yet been implemented, even in the mod's code, as no item exists for this scepter. This bug most likely does not hold true for the others, as the Zombie Scepter runs out of charges too quick to tell and the Scepter of Life Draining only functions when it is pointed at a mob. It is currently unknown but possible as to whether or not this bug holds true for the other two types of Scepter. The Scepter will continue firing until the charges drain or the player right clicks again. If the right mouse button is repeatedly clicked while holding a Scepter of Twilight, it may sometimes get 'stuck' and continue firing without the right mouse button being held down or clicked. The Scepter of Life Draining holds 99 charges. The scepter does not work against the Ender Dragon.

If the transfer of life energy is stopped midway through, the enemy will have the Slowness debuff applied to them and continue to approach the player, but at a much slower rate allowing the player to recharge the scepter or prepare for another round of draining. This will cause the enemy to float off the ground slightly and life energy will be transferred from the enemy to the user of the scepter, causing the user to heal faster than normal as if the user were in Peaceful mode. The best way to use this scepter is to hold down right-click while staring at an enemy.

Pink particle effects appear upon doing so.

The Scepter of Life Draining is a scepter which drains the life energy of whatever mob is right-clicked.

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