Valor Mortis: How to Find the Dominatus II Amber in the Caverns

The Dominatus Amber restores Health every time you land a Critical Attack, which makes a second copy worth chasing. Picking up that copy during Chapter 4 bumps the Amber from rank I to rank II, so each critical hit heals you for more. The drop sits in the Caverns, guarded by a red-eyed enemy at a lit campsite.

Quick answer: From the first lantern in Chapter 4, take the right path into the cave, hug the left wall, and defeat the red-eyed enemy standing at the bonfire camp. It drops Dominatus and one Pure Blade Material.

Where the second Dominatus copy drops

This copy comes from the Caverns, near the Last Sunlight lantern at the start of Chapter 4. It is not in a chest. An elite Shambling Civilian with glowing red eyes carries it, standing beside a bonfire in a camp. Defeating that enemy drops the Amber and one Pure Blade Material at the same time.

Use the cave’s first lantern checkpoint at the start of Chapter 4. Turn toward the interior and take the path on your right to go farther into the cavern.

Route Start at Chapter 4 Lantern — The Chapter 4 lantern where the route begins. Shown at 00:12 in NewDengs’s video. Image: One More Level

Continue straight through the cave passage and stay along the left wall. You will pass through enemy encounter zones, but you do not need to clear them to reach the camp.

Navigating the Cavern — Keep to the left wall as you move through the cavern toward the camp. Shown at 00:30 in NewDengs’s video. Image: One More Level

To your left, a wooden horse structure stands beside a bonfire burning at a campsite. The enemy you’re after is stationed right beside the fire.

Defeat the red-eyed enemy wielding a pitchfork. It drops one Pure Blade Material and the Dominatus Amber on death. Walk over the drops to collect them.

Combat and Item Drop — The defeated camp enemy drops both Pure Blade Material and Dominatus. Shown at 01:01 in NewDengs’s video. Image: One More Level

This upgrade only reaches rank II if you already collected the first Dominatus copy in an earlier chapter. Without the first copy, this drop simply gives you rank I.

How to confirm the upgrade worked

Rest at any lantern and open the Ambers tab in your inventory. The entry should read “Dominatus II” with “Upgrade Level: 2 / 3”. Ambers are equipped and managed by interacting with the Lantern, so this is also where you slot it into your build. Once equipped, every Critical Attack restores Health in combat.

Dark menu titled James's Iron Bench listing Upgrade, Trade and Exit buttons over a blurred workshop. — The “James’s Iron Bench” menu offers Upgrade, Trade and Exit options.

Dominatus Amber ranks and effect

Dominatus caps at rank 3, and each copy you pick up raises it one rank. The healing it grants per Critical Attack climbs with every rank.

Rank	Health restored per Critical Attack
I	50%
II	75%
III	100%

Four copies of Dominatus exist across the game, so you have a spare beyond the three needed to reach max rank. The other copies are found in two chests in The Outskirts and one chest in Valley of Ashes, alongside this Caverns drop.

What the Pure Blade Material is for

The same enemy hands you a Pure Blade Material, an upgrade material used to level up Blades. It sells and buys for $3,000, and besides this drop it comes from Eternal Guardsman and Volunteers at a 2% rate, chests across several regions, and James’s Iron Bench in chapters 5 and 9.

Here is where Pure Blade Material fits into each Blade’s upgrade path.

Weapon	Level 5	Level 6	Level 7
Saber	x1	x2	x3
Rapier	x1	x2	x3
Claymore	x1	x2	x3

With the Amber upgraded and the material banked, Dominatus pairs naturally with a parry-focused setup, since Critical Attacks follow a Posture break and the Rapier breaks Posture fastest. That turns each clean critical into steady healing while you push through the rest of Chapter 4.