The Level 15 Hive upgrade had been an order Ye Luo gave before entering "seclusion." It had been completed yesterday afternoon. According to Ye Luo's original plan, they were supposed to set out immediately after the upgrade, but Yoda's matter involving Cassandra had interrupted his plans, leaving him only now able to look over the results of the upgrade.
The Hive's upgrade had brought obvious improvements in level. Ye Luo and the others had now all reached Level 22 in strength. Factoring in the Ye brothers' second-stage awakening, if they encountered the Three Saints of Gibraltar again, they could absolutely keep them there—or even slaughter them. Aside from the Zerg heroes, ordinary Zerg units had also uniformly risen by one level. Even the lowest-level second-stage Zerglings now possessed Level 15 to 16 strength, while the Three-Eyed Millipedes, which had abandoned defense in pursuit of pure offense, now boasted Level 19 attack power—already comparable to a destroyer's secondary guns!
Level 19 damage, deployed in numbers that routinely reached tens of thousands, was enough to elevate their role from killers of small flying units to warship killers... Used properly, they would absolutely be an incomparably powerful force.
At the same time, reaching Level 15 had also unlocked the second-stage forms of Ultralisks and Brood Lords!
Second-stage Ultralisks had grown from the usual fifty-odd meters to nearly a hundred meters in size. A larger body meant further improvements to both attack and defense. Second-stage Ultralisks naturally received a strength bonus over first-stage Ultralisks, just as first-stage Zerglings only had Level 14 combat power, while second-stage Zerglings could reach Level 15 to 16 depending on the degree to which they evolved through devouring flesh and blood. Third-stage Desperate Phantoms and Death Claws could even reach Level 17, 18, or perhaps even 19!
Like second-stage