David enveloped the 'Dragon Emperor's Book', which was several times larger than himself, with his mind and took it out of the Dragon Emperor Throne's storage space.
He had no idea what material the 'Dragon Emperor's Book' was made of. Once it was removed, it hovered before him, and he could not feel even the slightest weight from it.
David's mind entered the 'Dragon Emperor's Book', and a sensation of being pulled away caused his consciousness to sink completely into it.
He was slightly startled. Looking up, he found that he had arrived in a space where a gigantic dark-gold dragon stood.
Behind the dark-gold dragon was a point of light.
"I am the guardian of the 'Dragon Emperor's Book'. Defeat me, and you may make the 'Dragon Emperor's Book' recognize you as its master. If you lack the strength, leave the 'Dragon Emperor's Book'. Once the trial begins, it cannot be stopped, and your soul may be injured!" the dark-gold dragon said in a deep voice.
David had guessed that becoming the Dragon Emperor would not be so easy, but he had not expected there to be such a trial.
He could sense that the dark-gold dragon before him possessed at least high-level god strength.
David's best choice, naturally, would have been to leave immediately and try again after becoming a god.
Yet he did not choose that, because this was not the real world, but a spiritual world.
David did not know how the Dragon Emperor had accomplished it, creating a spiritual world within the 'Dragon Emperor's Book'.
He had entered the 'Dragon Emperor's Book' in spiritual form, and the dark-gold dragon before him was likewise a dragon formed from the concentrated consciousness of a high-level god.
Even if a dragon had reached the high-level god rank, it