Synthesizing the Undying Wardrobe requires materials like ageless fruit, dragon-scale vine, black dragon ore, as well as a gray matter heart and dual glass.
Ageless fruit and dragon-scale vine are precious alchemical materials that can be found in the Gray Mist Valley, but they also exist in the outside world.
These are considered auxiliary materials and are not the core of the recipe.
The core materials are the black dragon ore and the gray matter heart.
Both are drops from the dungeon bosses of the Gray Mist Valley.
Black dragon ore is a rare drop from the 35th-floor boss, the Black Dragon of Layered Scales.
The gray matter heart is a rare drop from the 15th-floor boss, the Gray-robed Hag.
As for the dual glass, according to the copper plate's description, it is a drop from the 40th-floor boss, the Gray King of the Valley Floor.
The Gray Mist Valley only has forty floors, and as the ultimate boss, the Gray King of the Valley Floor does not respawn every twenty-four hours like normal bosses.
Instead, he respawns once a year.
However, the drop rate is the same as other bosses; except for the guaranteed dual glass on the first kill, all subsequent drop rates are the same.
Rare drops are different from common ones; besides the first kill, it might not drop even once in hundreds or thousands of attempts.
In other words, it could take several hundred or even a thousand years of bad luck for a single dual glass to drop.
"Whoa, I've really learned something here. As expected, is this the wisdom of the predecessors?"
Dalun Li continued to study the copper plate.
A vessel is stored within the body, and the Undying Wardrobe does not actually take the form of a wardrobe.
It is an internal vessel crafted with a ring seal stone as the core and various materials.
In the holder's mental projection, this vessel might manifest in a form similar to a wardrobe.
The special effect of the Undying Wardrobe is resurrection.
Beyond resurrection, according to the copper plate's records, the Undying Wardrobe and other vessels have additional special effects.
For example, storage.
As a vessel, besides containing power, it can also contain physical matter.
One can store items and magical artifacts within the internal vessel of the body.
Normally, deploying a magical artifact requires advance preparation to mask its mana signature.
If you deploy one on the fly, someone standing there could sense how many magical artifacts you are hiding and what grade they are.
However, an angel with a vessel can store magical artifacts within their internal vessel without leaking a single trace of mana.
Furthermore, vessels are divided by attributes.
The four elements, darkness, light, space, lightning, and so on.
The Undying Wardrobe is a life-attribute vessel; once contained, it provides resistance to life and plant-related attacks and grants immense vitality.
Additionally, the holder of an Undying Wardrobe does not drop a ring seal stone upon death.
Instead, they drop the Undying Wardrobe itself.
The dropped Undying Wardrobe is a finished product at the peak of the sixth rank, which can be used to complete an advancement.
However, one ring seal stone is consumed during this process.
The copper plate also recorded knowledge called external manifestation.
Sixth-rank angels possess a visionary power that manifests externally, namely the Angel's Halo.
For a seventh-rank archangel, the external manifestation includes not only the Angel's Halo but also a pair of ethereal wings.
The Angel's Halo is a symbol of power and knowledge, while the wings are a symbol of life.
Beyond granting the ability to fly, the wings provide defense and increase speed.
The form of the wings is determined by the attribute of the vessel contained by the seventh-rank archangel and its specialization.
Regarding color, they vary by attribute: azure for wind, crimson for fire, yellow for earth, white for light...
As for the form, a swordsman angel's wings are slender with sharp feathers.
A heavy warrior's wings are wide and thick with dense feathers.
The wings of a mage are thin and light, like glass.
A priest's wing form is more variable, usually showing different changes based on the deity they worship.
Dalun Li began to analyze the essence of vessels, wondering why they possessed such powerful effects.
He considered how a vessel should be crafted and designed.
How should the vessels of the Well of Eternal Imprisonment be designed? He couldn't simply plagiarize the ideas from the neighboring Gray Mist Valley.
Fortunately, the Well of Eternal Imprisonment was still far from becoming a medium-scale dungeon.
He could take his time designing the vessels for now.
Dalun Li planned to design the first vessel as a life-attribute vessel.
After all, the Undying Wardrobe from the Gray Mist Valley was life-attributed; by following that model, the success rate of designing a life-attribute vessel would be higher.
Moreover, life and plant-related attributes were indeed his strengths.
Dalun Li turned the copper plate over, but the back only contained half of the information.
What was recorded there, however, was the hierarchy of angels.
The sixth rank is the angel, the seventh rank is the archangel, and the eighth rank is the throne angel.
"Multi-vessel containment, vessel compatibility..."
"An angel is not limited to containing only one vessel; an angel who has contained the Undying Wardrobe can use it to contain two secondary vessels."
Primary vessel, secondary vessel.
The path to the eighth rank...
"Those who contain the Undying Wardrobe cannot advance to the eighth rank!"
"The Undying Wardrobe has no further advancement path; vessel expansion."
An angel who uses the Undying Wardrobe as their primary vessel must contain a secondary vessel and then replace the Undying Wardrobe with a secondary vessel that has a subsequent advancement path.
After the replacement, their level will drop back to lv71, and they must accumulate power until they reach the limit again to have a chance at advancing to the eighth rank.
Dalun Li understood; the Gray Mist Valley was only a medium-scale dungeon.
The Undying Wardrobe vessel it provided could not be upgraded; there was no further path for it.
Therefore, when the Undying Wardrobe was the primary vessel, the seventh rank was the limit.
To advance to the eighth rank, one must have a vessel from a large-scale dungeon of floor fifty or higher.
However, there was only one large-scale dungeon in the entire Lanxi Kingdom.
The neighboring Geri Kingdom also had one.
There were two in Iolan to the south, one of which was newly discovered and far from being fully explored.
How many eighth-rank vessels could these few large-scale dungeons produce in several hundred years?
But it couldn't be calculated that way; once a vessel was created, it would not disappear.
This world had already accumulated quite a few finished vessels.
But since an angel could contain multiple vessels and gain twice the power of others, it meant the accumulated vessels were monopolized by a few powerful individuals.
When a strong person died, the vessels within their body would be inherited by a chosen successor.
Over time, the classes of this world would become completely rigid; commoners had no chance of resisting the great powers, royalty, and nobility.
This was why the nobles and royals of this world could maintain their lineage for thousands of years, relying on their power to control dungeons and never giving commoners a chance to rise.
"What a terrifying world."
The rest of the copper plate's content was unreadable; Dalun Li guessed it might contain information related to the ninth rank.
Was the ninth rank the pinnacle of this world?
Following the previous logic, a ninth-rank vessel should only be possessed by an ultra-large-scale dungeon.
As far as Dalun Li knew, the only ultra-large-scale dungeon was the Root of the World Tree, held by the elves in the south.
Besides recording knowledge, the copper plate also had the effect of increasing the success rate of vessel containment.
This was not limited to just the Undying Wardrobe.
Dalun Li stared at the copper plate, wondering if this thing could help him synthesize Forbidden Fire.
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