Ciri had dragged Koken Novo's Monitor corpse back to the biological research institute in the Pacific Rim Universe for study.
He-El still needed Koken Novo's Monitor corpse for Grace to take back to the Monitors' domain, giving the Grace Search Ship a legitimate excuse to return.
"Monitors being accidentally killed in the universe isn't particularly surprising. Some Monitor Cleaners had carelessly been swallowed by black holes, crushed to death by the logic of universal reality, poisoned by cosmic viruses, or suffered accidents in the universe, survived on their last breath, and then been killed by native lifeforms. Though such cases were strange and rare, they weren't without precedent." The Grace Search Ship condensed its core, forming a humanoid body like liquid mercury, and followed He-El into the Pacific Rim Universe as it answered his question.
The members of the Monitors were not invincible.
Generally speaking, even the lowest-ranking untrained Monitor possessed stellar-level power upon reaching adulthood.
Some higher-ranking, trained Monitors possessing the power of dozens, hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of stars was perfectly normal as well.
There were even galaxy-level beings, and at the very highest level, those with the power to destroy a universe.
That universe-destroying power was not the kind that resonated with a universe and caused its logic to collapse. It was the power to forcibly blast a universe apart through sheer strength.
Of course, even He-El and Doctor Manhattan would not encounter beings at the level of smashing apart universes.
As for ordinary Monitor Cleaners, even among native lifeforms in Parallel Universes, there were unusual native cosmic creatures stronger than them.
Like Koken Novo's Monitor. He had been immensely powerful, possessing the power of several hundred stars. He could be considered exceptionally strong among the Cleaners, the only one He-El had encountered in all