After King's genetic sample was brought back to Totto Land, Mousse initially tried to clone it himself, but every attempt ended in failure. He could only abandon the idea of keeping it secret and bring Vegapunk into the research team.
However, even the peerless Vegapunk could only prevent Mousse from wasting more time.
"The Lunarian race is a truly supernatural life-form. They can directly absorb energy to sustain their own survival."
This conclusion unraveled the secret of how the Lunarian race could survive in any environment:
First, energy existed in every environment, ensuring they would not starve to death. Since they did not need to breathe, they naturally would not suffocate. As for harsh environments capable of directly killing ordinary life-forms—extreme heat, bitter cold, oxidation, reduction, and so on—they all worked through changes in energy. Those who could directly absorb energy could naturally interrupt those processes.
Yet this effectively pronounced the cruel fact that "the extinction of the Lunarian race is unavoidable." Supernatural life-forms were fundamentally different from natural life-forms. Though they looked much like humans, their Lineage Factors were even more distant from humans than bacteria were.
Therefore, it was absolutely impossible for them to marry and bear children with other races. With King as the last remaining Lunarian in the entire world, this was practically an advance declaration of the species' end.
Cloning was even less promising. As mentioned before, the souls generated by clones were weak—more precisely, their lifespans were extremely short. Furthermore, the stronger a clone's body was, the shorter its lifespan would be in relative terms.
Under such circumstances, the Lunarian race's innate strength instead became an insurmountable flaw. They could not be made weaker even if they wanted to be, so their lifespans would inevitably be unbelievably short. Unless the efficiency of accelerated cultivation