Episode 35 – The 73rd Demon King is the thirty-fifth episode of the webnovel Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint.
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Kim Dokja recovers from dying to the Eater of Dreams. Despite dying, the fate placed upon him by the nebulae has not yet subsided. He meets with Yoo Joonghyuk, who makes him promise to not give up until he reaches the end of the scenarios. When the other companions arrive, Yoo Joonghyuk abruptly announces the plan for the tenth main scenario and leaves. The party all train in preparation to fight a demon king, a being on par with a fable-grade constellation.
Upon finishing their training, the party starts to leave to the boss room. Kim Dokja looks upon his companions: a combination of both his favorite characters from Ways of Survival as well as new friends. He realizes he is afraid to lose them. They enter the boss room, but shockingly witness that the demon king had already been killed by the large nebulae at an exorbitant probability cost. Because of the unfair means by which the demon king was killed, the Star Stream rebalances the scenario. Since a demon king needed to be hunted for the scenario to proceed, the star stream fixes the contradiction by making a new person choose to become the demon king and having the rest kill them. The loser of the scenario is faced with not only death as a penalty, but expulsion from the scenario, which even resurrection cannot save someone from.
Yoo Joonghyuk immediately snatches a jade that starts his transformation into the demon king, while Kim Dokja tries to stop him. Kim Dokja realizes that Yoo Joonghyuk is going to sacrifice himself so that the party can advance, and that Yoo Joonghyuk values Kim Dokja's life over his own, believing Dokja to be more suited to reach the end of the scenarios. Yoo Joonghyuk also says that he managed to speak with his sponsor, who said that their world would not disappear even if he regresses, and implores Kim Dokja to remember his promise.
At the same time, the dokkaebis and the constellations watch the incredibly immersive scenario in the Dark Castle. Despite being a dokaebi; someone who is supposed to be an impartial storyteller, Bihyung can't shake the emotions he's feeling while watching Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk's struggle.
Meanwhile, Kim Dokja desperately tries to stop Yoo Joonghyuk from evolving into the demon king. He manages to knock Yoo Joonghyuk away and take the jade. With the jade in hand, he immediately chooses to turn into the demon king himself.
While his companions freeze from horror and confusion, Kim Dokja grows more than three times larger into the new demon king. He calmly implores everyone to quickly kill him, though they all try to refuse. Kim Dokja calls out his companions one by one, and manages to convince them to attack one of their closest friends: himself. He promises that he would come back, and although everyone fights through tears and sorrow, Kim Dokja eventually falls. He realizes that the fate placed on him had came true. In the Star Stream, people were stories—and he was killed by the story he loved the most: the one he was making with his companions.
Kim Dokja is expelled from the scenario and his incarnation body is completely destroyed. The Star Stream announces his modifier: Demon King of Salvation.
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