Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint - Chapter 786

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Translator: ZERO_SUGAR

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◈ Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint ◈

Chapter 786: Episode 37: Graduation Ceremony (2)

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Could I win?

I didn't know.

In truth, I had never even considered it.

“Youngest.”

Fighting that Kim Dokja in this world, and a Kim Dokja who had become a Constellation at that. It was something no sane person would ever do.

“You could die. You know that, right?”

“Isn't dying what we're good at?”

And yet, why was I deliberately doing this?

“No, dying isn't what we're good at.”

“Coming back to life is.”

Was this proof that Dokja's fables flowed through me too?

“You can't come back to life. You've built up your Attributes and fables wrong.”

“So you've already decided I'll die?”

The Demon King of Salvation merely smiled without answering.

I answered that smile.

“I'll become the first Kim Dokja who never dies.”

Perhaps my words amused him, because the Demon King of Salvation burst out laughing.

“I look forward to it.”

Please do.

Right now, I needed the support of as many Kim Dokjas as possible.

[Great Demon King Demon King of Salvation reveals his Status.]

Standing atop the blade-like wind, we exchanged sword strikes as though we had agreed on a signal.

The [Way of the Wind] I had compressed exploded where our blades met, and Dokja countered it with his practiced [White Pure Star Energy]. The Mana from both sides cancelled each other out and balanced in midair.

The Demon King of Salvation's fables permeated the space between our clashing blades.

[The fable Arbitrary Interpreter has found a story to interpret arbitrarily!]

[The fable King of a Kingless World begins its story.]

「This is a world without a King.」

As the fable began its story, the form of Thought, which had been mimicking Unbreakable Faith, changed.

「His sword was born rejecting every throne in the world.」

Thought soon took the shape of the Four-Tiger Evil-Cutting Sword.

The very sword that had destroyed the Absolute Throne on the day the fable "King of a Kingless World" was created.

「It reigns over all who are not Kings.」

Cold sweat ran down my back.

Even a Constellation would die facing that sword. Dokja had actually defeated Constellations from the Twelve Zodiacs with its sword strikes before.

The Demon King of Salvation warned me.

“You know, right? This fable can't be blocked by anyone who isn't a King.”

Before I could answer, the Four-Tiger Evil-Cutting Sword flew at me.

I swung Unbreakable Faith with all my strength, gripping it in both hands.

Clang!

My body spun as I was pushed back. The solid sentences of the fable struck me whole.

I realized it once more.

What sort of life he had lived, and what kind of fables he had accumulated.

What he was made of.

But I couldn't yield so easily here.

“Have you forgotten whose proxy I am?”

[The Constellation Demon King of Salvation (Proxy) reveals his Status!]

Naturally, a demon king was also a King.

[Your modifier resists the effect of King of a Kingless World.]

I drew out the real Four-Tiger Evil-Cutting Sword to face him.

“And I didn't clear the Absolute Throne for nothing either.”

[The fable Heir to an Eternal Name begins its story.]

I recalled that day's fable once more.

It was a day I didn't want to remember.

「The day the master of the throne descended between the lines of the world.」

The story of the day I met the Founder of the Absolute Throne outside the Scenario.

「Two people stood against the master of the throne in a distant void.」

I thought of Han Suyeong.

I remembered her words. She had vanished in order to give me this sword, this fable.

「“Why did you want to become a writer?”」

As though answering that question, I swung my sword.

“If you're the Kim Dokja who destroyed the Absolute Throne...”

The constellation pattern on the brightly shining Four-Tiger Evil-Cutting Sword blazed.

“Then I'm the Kim Dokja who killed the bastard who made that Absolute Throne.”

Kim Dokja.

This fable existed only to prove those three syllables, made up of nothing but consonants and vowels.

[The fable Heir to an Eternal Name roars!]

[The fable King of a Kingless World growls!]

The two fables howled as they resonated with one another.

The balance between the evenly matched fables began to tip at a certain point.

[The fable Heir to an Eternal Name laughs wildly!]

"King of a Kingless World" was an excellent fable.

A fable with a solidly completed setting, events, and sentences, created by destroying the Absolute Throne itself.

However, even fables about the same Absolute Throne had different Statuses.

"Heir to an Eternal Name" was a fable born from a more impossible event, one that touched the foundation of the world.

Above all, "King of a Kingless World" was Legendary-grade, while "Heir to an Eternal Name" was a quasi-Mythical-grade fable that continued to grow.

The overflowing power of the fable swallowed the Demon King of Salvation.

Even as he was helplessly pushed back, he did not lose his composure. He looked as though he had expected this much.

“You seem to have forgotten already. Who do you think was there when that fable was created?”

Even amid the storm of fables, the Demon King of Salvation did not lose his dignity.

As though he knew this story could not harm him.

When he gently swept his sword as though parting clouds, the fable's sentences closing in on him split apart as if by magic.

[The fable Heir to an Eternal Name frowns.]

It was the result I had expected.

This fable could not hurt him.

"Heir to an Eternal Name" was the fable completed when I made a contract with the Demon King of Salvation.

It was a story that could not have been born without his help in the first place.

[The authority of the fable Heir to an Eternal Name does not work on Demon King of Salvation.]

The Demon King of Salvation, who had completely nullified my fable, looked at me.

“That's enough playing around.”

“Let's fight for real.”

As long as we were both Dokja, a half-hearted clash of fables could not hurt either of us.

[The Constellation One Who Brought Ten Lambs watches the battle with anxious eyes.]

[Some Constellations expect a fiercer battle!]

The Star Stream would not be satisfied with a fight like this either.

He knew it, and so did I.

We were the people most accustomed to staging things in the Star Stream.

The moment our eyes met, we understood what skill the other would use.

[The amount of Loss you have acquired is sufficient.]

[Exclusive Attribute Record Mender has activated.]

[Exclusive Skill Bookmark has received additional repairs.]

[The function of Exclusive Skill Bookmark has been enhanced!]

[The level of Exclusive Skill Bookmark has greatly increased!]

A list of characters appeared in my mind.

Without hesitation, I selected one.

The Demon King of Salvation did the same.

“Bookmark Number Two.”

“Bookmark Number Five.”

The characters within our Bookmarks were different. Yet in a sense, we had called upon the same person.

“I'll activate Jeong Huiwon, the Judge of Evil.”

“I'll activate Jeong Huiwon, the Demonbane Judge.”

The two Huiwons entered us.

One was the Judge of Evil. The other was the Demonbane Judge.

One was a Judge who displayed her greatest power only against evildoers. The other was a Judge who displayed her greatest power only against monsters.

A matchup that should never have been possible came to pass under the name Kim Dokja.

Rumbleee!

The moment sword aura collided with sword aura, a sound like my ears were bursting rang out.

A scene of sword strikes too fast to follow with the eye.

Both the Demon King of Salvation and I held our breaths as we endured the power of the Huiwons we had read.

“Urgh.”

Every time we caught our breath, fierce strategic exchanges took place.

Twenty exchanges, fifty exchanges, eighty exchanges.

As the exchanges accumulated, I could feel the traces of his reading in Huiwon's sword strikes.

「Huiwon-ssi moves her arm like this when she uses a sword.」

「When she uses her right-hand sword, her thrusts are always honest and orderly.」

I could not lose either.

「Huiwon-ssi has a habit of taking a step back whenever she catches her breath.」

「Faster, stronger. Huiwon-ssi's sword was more violent than this.」

This was a reader's fight.

A battlefield where the one who read more fiercely and placed their Bookmark more carefully would win.

I was slowly becoming short of breath.

It was hard to keep up with the Huiwon the Demon King of Salvation had interpreted.

Honestly, I was impressed.

He really was different.

「The Jeong Huiwon of the 1,864th round is truly incredible.」

However, it seemed the Demon King of Salvation was impressed as well.

“Not bad. Huiwon-ssi of the 41st round is incredibly strong too.”

“Whose sword do you think it is?”

Just as the Huiwon of the third round had become Dokja's sword, the Huiwon of the 41st round had become mine.

「The person who swung more swords than anyone else to protect us.」

The moment our different interpretations met at the same conclusion, our clashing blades let out another deafening roar.

A situation where life and death were decided in a single sword strike.

And yet, we were smiling.

“Huiwon-ssi really is an amazing person.”

“She is.”

“If she hadn't been there, I never would have seen the end of the Scenarios.”

“I'll probably say the same thing someday.”

This fight was fun.

“That Huiwon-ssi has a peculiar habit with her right foot.”

“Your Huiwon-ssi's sword strikes are too honest.”

This time of talking about stories we loved was so enjoyable.

As our interpretations continued, sentences that could kill each other flashed through our minds one after another.

I wanted to show him this interpretation.

I wanted to share the story I knew with him too.

That desire made me play my trump card.

[You activate the Exclusive Skill Hour of Judgement!]

The Huiwon of the 41st round was the Demonbane Judge.

And perfectly enough, the Demon King of Salvation before me was the demon king of countless monsters.

「It still isn't enough.」

The Huiwon of the 41st round possessed talent that surpassed the Huiwon of any other worldline.

[Bookmark] alone was not enough to show it.

[Exclusive Skills Bookmark and Incitement resonate!]

[You activate the Exclusive Skill Incitement Lv. 10!]

「I am Jeong Huiwon.」

The path of the sword opened in my mind, and every Huiwon I knew filled my entire body.

The greatest Jeong Huiwon I could recreate now was swinging her sword.

Could the Demon King of Salvation deflect this interpretation?

Could he crush the history we had built?

“You really read diligently.”

Even before the incoming blade, the Demon King of Salvation was still Dokja.

“This is the first time I've seen a Huiwon-ssi like that.”

“If you stand there like that, you'll die!”

“Die?”

The moment he smirked, the scenery around us seemed to ripple lightly.

“Are you underestimating your older brother too much?”

With a harsh cracking sound, the sword I swung flew upward.

A strike by Huiwon imbued with [Hour of Judgement], [Demon Slaying], and even [Swordsmanship].

The Demon King of Salvation blocked that strike.

How?

[Great Demon King Demon King of Salvation has activated Hour of Judgement!]

My eyes widened.

That was impossible.

The Huiwon the Demon King of Salvation had borrowed was the Judge of Evil.

And the Judge of Evil could only use that skill when her opponent was an evildoer, and only after receiving the consent of Constellations aligned with Absolute Good.

He was a demon king now.

No Constellation aligned with Absolute Good would lend him their power.

Then how...

In that instant, I felt something strange.

My hair stood on end, and it felt as though my spine creaked.

It felt as though death had come one layer closer.

I reflexively stepped back more than ten paces, and the scenery around me looked different.

Familiar tracks and a platform.

Why had I not noticed sooner?

「Stage Transformation.」

It was not a true Stage Transformation. It seemed he had paid Plausibility to trigger a kind of Simplified Stage Transformation.

“You seem to have forgotten who you were, Youngest.”