I don't want to be a heroic spirit

"Recognize it! Not causing trouble for others is an illusory fantasy! The emperor and his subjects share honor and disgrace, and advance and retreat together!"

"The people put their power and love in the emperor, and the emperor is to bring prosperity and happiness to the people!"

"I did it! Because I am the emperor! I can do anything! This is the emperor's privilege! It is also the emperor's duty! I promised my people the right to be willful and the right to be happy! And as the emperor! As the leader of all people! As the one who concentrates power! Naturally, I am more willful than anyone else! And happier than anyone else!"

"This is Rome! This is Rome!"

"Alice! Your Highness, the Princess of this country! I have something to ask you!"

Nero lowered his head, his emerald eyes clearly reflecting Alice's dumbfounded face.

"How can you bring happiness to the people when you can't even see the outline of your own happiness?"

It was like a door that had been sealed in her heart for a long time was violently knocked open. Nero's words shocked Alice greatly.

The rules that he once adhered to were challenged, and Nero's questioning kept echoing in his ears.

"You've been so well-behaved for so many years, so it's okay if you act willful once in a while, right?"

Nero smiled at Alice.

"Don't take things too seriously. This country, this world, won't collapse because of your little willfulness."

"You're only 12, right? Isn't that the right age to be willful?"

Chapter 250 Becoming an Adventurer in Axel

Axel is a town known as a haven for novice adventurers.

Unlike the King's Capital, which serves as the front line and is attacked by the Demon King's army at regular intervals, this town is basically surrounded by weak monsters, and the frequency of monster appearance is also very low. It is so peaceful that if adventurers rely solely on defeating monsters to gain money, they will most likely starve to death.

The Adventurer's Guild was also very lively today. In the slightly dim interior, groups of people wearing armor or robes gathered together, some standing under the commission wall to discuss commissions, some consulting the counter staff, and some drinking and chatting at the dining table.

At this moment, the door was pushed open by a pair of hands.

Rose petals flew into the room from outside the door, and the originally noisy space suddenly became much quieter.

"Hmm! Is this the Adventurer's Guild? It's even more lively than I imagined!"

Nero, wearing a bright red dress, seemed to be shining, and she lifted her hair generously.

"Hmm...are we attracting too much attention, sis?"

A man wrapped in a long robe with only a few strands of golden hair exposed followed Nero, his tone full of uneasiness.

"Hmm! I am the emperor! Where I stand is the center of the world! It's only natural that I should be noticed! And... you are indeed Rome, Iris."

"I don't understand what you mean, sis... And we should have sneaked out this time, right? Is it really okay to be so conspicuous?"

The girl Nero called Iris was so anxious that she seemed about to cry.

"What are you so scared of? You were so brave when you first came out, and didn't you leave a letter for Claire and the others? How can you be considered to have escaped secretly? It's just a case of execution first and reporting later. This is the emperor's privilege!"

That’s right, the “Elise” next to Nero is Her Royal Highness Princess Alice of this country, and “Elise” is Alice’s alias outside.

After all, the name Alice is so well-known that even a small border town like Axel must have heard of it.

Perhaps Nero and Alice were too conspicuous and stood at the door for too long, so a waitress came over at this time.

"Ah, welcome. Are you here to post a commission? Or are you here to have a meal? If so, please go to the commission wall over there. If you're here to have a meal, please find an empty seat."

When Nero saw the waitress coming towards him, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Mmm! Beautiful girl!"

"Eh?"

"And! She's a beautiful girl in uniform! I see, I see. You guys are very understanding! Hmm! I'm very satisfied! Both your service attitude and your beauty!"

"Um...thank you?"

The smile on the waitress's face seemed a little stiff, because the praise was so sudden.

Moreover, the person who praised her beauty was a girl who was even prettier than she was, which made her wonder for a moment whether the other person was playing a trick on her.

"Sister, sister! You scared me!"

Alice noticed the waitress's stiff smile and hurried forward to pull Nero back.

Alice looked at the waitress and said sincerely, "I'm sorry to have caused you so much trouble..."

"No, I'm actually quite happy to receive compliments from such a beautiful lady."

After calming down, the waitress quickly waved her hands.

If she thought about it carefully, even this beautiful girl in front of her sincerely praised her looks...what else could she be dissatisfied with?

And... there is this little girl wrapped in a long robe. Although her face cannot be seen, her voice is really nice and her personality is so well-behaved. Just talking to her makes me feel like I am basking in the spring breeze.

"Actually..." Alice hesitated for a moment and whispered, "My sister and I came to the Adventurer's Guild this time because we want to become adventurers."

In this world, there are professions and levels.

Nero is not from this world, so he needs to become an adventurer first before he can choose a profession and have a level.

After speaking to the counter staff and paying the registration fee, Nero and Alice finally became adventurers.

Once you become an adventurer, you will receive an adventurer card.

"This area on the card shows the level. Everything in this world has a soul within it. No matter what kind of being it is, if you eat or kill a living being, that is, terminate a certain life activity, you can absorb a portion of the soul's memory. This is what is commonly known as 'experience points'. These experience points are generally not visible to the naked eye, but..."

The lady at the counter pointed to a part of the card and said...

"As long as you hold this card, the experience points gained by the adventurer will be displayed on it. At the same time, the corresponding level will also be displayed. This is the standard of the adventurer's strength. The number of targets defeated will also be recorded here. As experience points accumulate, various creatures will suddenly grow rapidly at a certain time. This is what is called crossing the level-up wall... In short, as long as you level up, you can get various benefits, such as points for learning new skills, etc., so please be sure to work hard to increase your level."

After learning about the existence of experience points, Nero felt like he was playing a role-playing game.

"Next, please fill in your identity information on this document, then touch this card. Your various ability parameters will be displayed..."

The name Alice filled in was the pseudonym Elise, and Nero had nothing to hide, so he wrote "Nero".

The counter lady took the documents and adventurer card from Nero.

"Okay, thank you for your cooperation, Miss Nero, right? Your...eh? Eh——!!"

A cry of surprise came from the lady at the counter.

The attention of everyone in the guild was drawn to her exclamation.

The lady at the counter held Nero's adventurer card and repeatedly checked it in disbelief. After finally confirming that it was correct, she looked at Nero with extremely shocked eyes.

"Hmm? What happened?"

"Sorry... sorry! My rudeness! Miss Nero, your attributes are simply too amazing. All parameters are far above average, especially your agility and luck, which are unprecedented in my life! Your strength and vitality are a little lower than other attributes, but they are not inferior to those of top-notch adventurers!"

The counter lady's words once again caused an uproar in the Adventurer's Guild.

"Hmm? Are you saying I'm amazing?" Nero tilted his head, then raised it proudly and said, "Then praise me more! I'm much more amazing than you think!"

Chapter 251 Yu’s occupation is emperor!

After becoming an adventurer, the receptionist began to ask Nero which profession he wanted to choose.

"Based on Miss Nero's ability parameters, you can basically choose any class, including the Crusader, known for its strongest defense, the Sword Master, a superior class for swordsmen, known for their strongest attack power, the High Priest, a superior class for priests, the Grand Mage, a superior class for magicians, and so on..."

"Although Miss Nero's magic power isn't as strong as the one who came a few days ago, I've never heard of someone who can choose all the advanced professions at level one!"

"Profession?"

Nero tilted his head in confusion, then suddenly said, "My profession is emperor!"

Then he was pulled aside by Alice.

After a while, Nero appeared in front of the counter lady again.

"As the Emperor, I am omnipotent. So, is there a profession that is as versatile as me and can learn all the skills?"

"Well... there might actually be a career that meets your requirements."

Finally, Nero chose the profession of Adventurer, which is known as the weakest profession.

Yes, that’s the profession of the male protagonist Sato Kazuma.

Other professions have attribute requirements, but the adventurer profession has no requirements. The male protagonist Kazuma has too low ability values ​​and only luck is outstanding, so he has no choice but to choose this weakest profession.

The only advantage of an adventurer is that he can learn all skills. However, learning skills in this world requires consuming skill points, and the adventurer profession requires a lot of skill points to learn skills.

A skill may only require one skill point, but an adventurer may need to spend ten skill points to learn it, which is a waste.

But Nero didn't really care, she just wanted to do an experiment.

Her physical abilities were completely inherited from her Servant's spiritual base, and she was curious whether the level of this world could be applied to her.

Also, if she left this world and went to another world, would this level and skill still be retained?

Because he had just become an adventurer, Nero's level was only level one.

However, Alice's level seems to be not low. It is said that the food she eats every day is made of very high-level ingredients, so the level is naturally not low.

So troublesome things happened because the counter staff wanted to check Alice's adventurer card.

Alice was visibly in a panic. Although the name could be faked, the ability values ​​and levels on the adventurer's card would not lie.

Alice's level was truly terrifying. Nero remembered that Alice was the strongest human being in the world, wasn't she? Who knew what would happen if the counter staff saw Alice's Adventurer Card?

"Iris, give the card to Yu."

Out of trust in Nero, Alice handed her adventurer card to Nero after hearing this.

After taking the card, Nero tapped the card's level with his thumb and handed it to the lady at the counter.

"Yes, Miss Iris? Those attributes are quite astonishing too..."

The lady at the counter said something similar to what she had just said to Nero, and then handed the card to Alice.

"Um...thank you."

Alice took the card with both hands, feeling flattered, and whispered a thank you.

When she looked at the card in her hand again, she was surprised to find that the level column on the card had become level one, but the other values ​​​​had not changed.

"It's just a little magic trick of my world, able to deceive perception."

Nero's whispered words rang in Alice's ears.

Alice's stats were all very high, but with Nero as an example and someone who had appeared a few days ago and whose magic power was said to be even more abnormal than Nero's, Alice didn't cause such a big commotion.

After completing the adventurer registration, the two of them headed to the Commission Wall with great interest.

Parchments with commissions written on them were hung on the wall, making it a feast for the eyes.

Alice tilted her head back, her clear blue eyes filled with transparency examining the parchments on the wall with immense anticipation. Unable to express her inner excitement, she stood on tiptoe from time to time, reading each commission word by word.

"Sister, why are there some red things on these papers?"

"Looks like skulls? Maybe it represents the degree of danger? The more red skulls there are, the more dangerous the commission is."

"Eh? Is that so? Sister! There's a commission here with a red skull painted all over it. Defeat the One-Strike Bear in the forest? Ah! I know that! There are a lot of One-Strike Bears in the forest near the royal capital! They're very common monsters."

"But it seems like there are boss-level monsters here, hmmm!"

"Besides monster-slaying requests, there are also requests for swordsmanship instruction and pet cat retrieval. Hmm... adventurers can actually do so much? I see. Adventurerhood truly is a great profession."

Alice's admiration for the group of adventurers increased even more. Although Claire seemed to have been telling Alice that adventurers were almost all a group of rude and unmannered people, Alice didn't seem to listen.

“Eh? This is…”

Just then, Alice discovered a very special commission.

Nero's attention was also attracted.

"A large sum of money to find someone? Looking for a noble daughter with long golden hair and elegant manners..."

"Hey, hey! Sister Nero! Could... could it be that they're here to look for us?" Alice hugged Nero's arm in a panic and whispered, "Did Claire and the others find out we're here so quickly?"

"That shouldn't be the case. We just came out, and this is the border of the kingdom. The timing doesn't make sense... Maybe it's talking about other people."

"Is... is that so?" Alice looked at the letter of request with her clear blue eyes. "So..."

"It's a coincidence, right? A rich girl who looks a bit like you just sneaked out, but a little earlier than you. Look closely, this parchment must have been stuck there for a few days. This doesn't match the time of our escape."

Nero's words also made Alice feel a little relieved.

"So, which commission should we take? The one-shot bear?"