144 Celebration

The three elites had taken to foreign genetic samples remarkably well, even exceeding the Collector's calculations by a nigh inconceivable 40%.

The Collector could not calculate the strength boost the elites would receive adequately because it was still experimenting with Higher Calling, and this was the first time it had truly melded together its own adaptations with magic.

Partly, the Collector had not expected too much due to how Cluster Drones functioned originally.

Cluster drones, as their name suggested, were meant to be used in clusters. They were individually extremely weak relative to the Collector, making up for such weakness with numbers.

In the Collector's original form, at the height of its powers, it could field ten thousand cluster drones and expend biomass to continuously produce them.