[Hell-Mode Quest: Enter an Exceed Cave, and clear it successfully.]
Rudra read it twice, and his jaw tightened, and he looked at John. "You know what this is."
"I do." John's easy smile had gone, and what replaced it was something more careful. "Exceed Caves. So they finally opened your road to them." He set his cup down too, and when he spoke again, his voice carried the weight of a man who did not use words lightly. "Then listen closely, because this is the most dangerous thing any of you will have done yet, and I want you to understand exactly what you are walking into before you decide to walk into it."
He looked up, past the canopy, toward the highest point of the strange upper-layer sky.
