Elysia: The bar opened by the Zeroeth Flame-Chaser shall be called... the Zero Hour Bar! (Continued)

"You're hunting Acheron?" Just as Borto was considering how to persuade the Star Rail crew, a voice sounded beside him.

Borto instantly drew his revolver and aimed it behind him.

But when he saw who it was, Borto hesitated and put the gun away.

"Well, if it isn't the Lord of Paradise? One of your Paradise adventurers is a good brother of mine. Could you send me into Penacony?" Borto greeted him.

What the hell? Why was he running into the Lord of Paradise here?

Some Pathstriders truly feared neither heaven nor earth, but it was perfectly normal to feel some apprehension toward someone who had just killed an Aeon... What if the other party punched him to death?

"Did that Paradise adventurer brother of yours ever tell you that Acheron is my dearest beloved?" Chen Luo asked.

Chen Luo had appeared here because Pom-Pom had sent him a message asking for help.

"..."

Damn it, Borto really hadn't known.

Oh no, wasn't this walking straight into the tiger's jaws?

"So you want me to send you into Penacony to hunt Acheron... That'll cost extra." Chen Luo said.

"Huh?"

"Wondering why I said that? Because I know you can't beat Acheron. So what price can you pay to make me help you?" Chen Luo asked.

"The friendship of the Pathstriders?" Borto asked tentatively.

"Fine, that works. Off you go!" Chen Luo tore open a Gap and tossed Borto inside.

He had completed two commissions at once. Either way, Chen Luo hadn't lost out.

One commission was Borto's request to enter Penacony and find Acheron.

The other was Acheron's request, from within Penacony, to meet a real Pathstrider.

Acheron had come to Penacony in the first place to return a Pathstrider's relic.

Originally, Acheron would have been expelled from Penacony by