500M Defense puts it down to 2,
700M sends it down to 1,
Takes 1.5B to bring it all the way to 0.
Lv 2 Billion
The reason why it speeds up is because all the other units finally dies, with the skeleton attacking every time, progression through the stage finally becomes a so much faster. The bug is good for spawning all units, but not so much for farming levels or money.