As the ghostly glow flickering across the hull gradually dimmed, Song Chi knew that the Cangqiong had completed its advancement from a Psionic Shuttle to a Void Energy Airship. He quickly scanned the airship's attributes.
As expected, the Cangqiong's attributes had changed drastically.
First, the eight basic slots on all Kindling Starships had received a special boost. Regardless of the quality of the components installed in these basic slots, their effects would be increased by 20%.
This was a bonus effect gained by every Kindling Starship that advanced to a Void Energy Airship. Nor was it limited to Void Energy Airships—this bonus would increase further with every subsequent advancement. This was the fundamental reason why Kindling Starships of different tiers within Kindling Human Civilization possessed such vastly different combat strength.
Just think about it. Although this bonus effect was fixed, a 20% increase alone was equivalent to adding an exclusive trait that enhanced power to every basic component.
There was no need to elaborate on traits. Only top-tier blue components and even purple-grade components possessed them. From this alone, one could imagine just how terrifying the overall performance boost was for a Kindling Starship after each major advancement.
Take the recently installed Particle Beam Cannon, for example. Its power attribute after being enhanced to lv10 had originally been 173, but it would now receive an additional 20% increase on that basis, making it 173 x 120% = 208 points.
The Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator was the same, except the boost applied to both its defense and shield values.
Defense: 880 x 120% = 1056 Shield Value: 16280/16280 x 120% = 19536/19536
The universal components in the other basic slots were the same. Even the durability of the Kindling hull itself had increased by 20%.
Besides that, the