From the curse back, I started to eat the clone's soft rice

Altria stood up and walked in front of Anshu, then under the gaze of Chris and Darkness, she slowly knelt on one knee and lowered her originally majestic head.

"Beelzebub Altria Pendragon, I pledge my loyalty to you as a knight, and will become the blade in your hand that will fulfill your aspirations and sweep away all obstacles."

At this moment, Chris and Darkness, who were standing beside them, widened their eyes at the same time.

"Wait, Your Highness Artoria, what are you talking about? As the sole heir to the throne of the ancient Kingdom of Belzer, how can you pledge allegiance to someone else?"

Darkness was so shocked that she was incoherent and wanted to step forward, but was stopped by Merry.

"This is quite normal, isn't it? After all, according to the prophecy, the hero is the one who will lead us to defeat the Demon King and bring peace to the world. Since he is the leader, then Altria naturally can't take over the leadership."

"But, even so, there's no need to go to this extent, right? And wasn't it you who said the prophecy? Did you ask Her Highness Artoria to do this?"

"This is none of my business. Leah did this out of her own conscience."

"And it's not just Leah. I will also follow Mr. Anxiu. After all, in the prophecy, I am also one of the people led by Mr. Anxiu."

"Oh no, if that's the case, you can't call me Mr. Anxiu anymore. You should call me Mr. Brave or Master."

"W-what, even you?!"

Watching the conversation between Darkness and Meli, Chris, who was standing by, was a little confused as she witnessed the scene.

After all, in her opinion, even without Anshu, the so-called prophesied hero, Altria's ability is enough to realize the prophecy of defeating the Demon King/Army and bringing peace to the world.

The crushed demon kings/military main forces and cadres must have a say in this regard.

What's more, Miss Artoria has an equally powerful Meli to help her. Logically speaking, the two of them should not need a hero to lead them at all, not to mention that Artoria chose to be loyal to Anshu directly because of a prophecy.

Is it because Miss Altria is a very serious person that she made such a choice directly after confirming the prophecy?

But no matter what, with the support of Miss Altria and Miss Meli, no matter whether the prophecy about the hero from Meli's mouth is true or not, Anxiu's identity as a hero has now been directly confirmed.

After all, as I just said, with the abilities of Miss Altria and Miss Meli, even if Anxiu is really an ordinary person who knows nothing, he can easily realize all the contents of the prophecy with the help of the two.

It may even be unimportant whether there is Anxiu or not.

No, no, no, it's a bit too rude to think like that. Since it was Miss Meli herself who made this prophecy, and Miss Altria also agreed with it, then the two of them must have their reasons for doing so, but I just haven't discovered it.

Anyway, with Altria's pledge of allegiance and Meli's approval, the noise in the room gradually died down.

Everyone sat down again, but the difference was that this time Anxiu sat in the first seat, while Altria and Meli sat next to Anxiu.

"Then, please, Mr. Brave, make arrangements for our next actions."

"After all, you are the one who will lead us as predicted by the prophecy. Leah and I will fully support all your decisions."

Mary just smiled and spoke.

In response, An Xiu nodded without hesitation.

"In that case, I'm hungry now, so go prepare a banquet for me."

"I haven't had a good meal since I came to this world, so I'm not in a rush to defeat the Demon King. I'm going to enjoy myself first."

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Chapter 218: Good news, the brave is the ideal type; bad news, the brave is the ideal type!

Three days have passed since we arrived in the Suqing world and the royal city.

During these three days, Anxiu had no intention of defeating the Demon King. Instead, with the support of Altria and Meli, he experienced the decadent life of the royal family in the palace.

Although the royal family of this world, at least the royal family of the ancient Kingdom of Belzer, does not actually live a decadent life, after all, it is the country on the front line against the Demon King/Army, and even the king will go to the front line to fight with the Demon King's army.

But this also benefited Anxiu. After all, the old king and other royal family members were on the front line fighting against the Demon King/Army, so that in the entire royal palace, apart from Altria, there was only one royal family member, Princess Alice in the original work.

The problem is that Princess Alice is still young, and Artoria currently obeys Anxiu both openly and secretly. On this basis, she has the support of Meli, the chief magician of the court. It can be said that in this situation, the entire palace has become Anxiu's back garden. Even if Anxiu has no power on the surface, no one dares to disobey Anxiu's orders.

"So, are you really a hero?"

Darkness, who had also been in the palace for three days, looked at Anxiu with a questioning look and spoke.

It was a misunderstanding that she was brought back to the royal city. Darkness had actually planned to leave as early as the first day.

After all, although I am a little curious about the hero predicted by Lady Meili, in Meili's prophecy, the hero Anxiu should be a great man with noble character, great aspirations, and the ability to bring peace to the world.

Darkness would have respect for such a noble person in her heart, but she would not have any desire to contact him.

The ideal man in her mind should be a useless person who is lazy, has no ambition, has no masculinity, and only relies on women.

To be more specific, he would ask her to go out and earn money to support him every day, and then use all the money she earned to satisfy his own selfish desires. When he was in a bad mood, he would vent his desires on himself like a beast, and would not care about himself afterwards. It would be best if he could command herself with a tough attitude at ordinary times, and treat herself as a servant without any burden. Making money, working, housework, fighting, etc. were all left to her to solve.

In Darkness's opinion, these conditions mentioned above should have nothing to do with Anshu.

After all, he is the brave man who can bring peace to the world as predicted by the chief magician of the court, Lady Meli. He is the object of loyalty that Princess Altria is willing to give up her royal status to, and he is also the person that Lady Meli wants to assist. How could he be a man who is greedy for pleasure, indulges in desires, and has no ambition?

That's how it should be...

Unfortunately, due to Anshu's unconcealed attitude, his true nature was exposed in front of Darkness, Chris, Altria, Meli and others as early as the first day.

Good news, the brave man is his ideal type.

Bad news, the hero is his ideal type!

Although her XP and nature are different from those of ordinary people, it does not mean that Darkness does not have normal people's ideas. On the contrary, she can clearly realize what Princess Altria, who is a royal family in her eyes, is loyal to.

I thought it was a story of a noble royal family putting aside their status and working together with a noble hero to create an ideal future, a story that could be sung by bards throughout the world. However, I didn't expect that the loyal hero was not a great man but a fake one.

How could Darkness accept this? From the original novel, Darkness's attitude towards Sato Kazuma's contact with Princess Alice shows that she and her family are staunch supporters of the royal family.

Unlike Darkness, Chris did not have too many negative impressions of Anshu because of his behavior in the past few days. On the one hand, as the first person Anshu came into contact with after coming to this world, Chris knew Anshu better and could judge that Anshu was not a bad person by nature. On the other hand, she did not think that Anshu, who became a hero because of a prophecy, must devote everything to the cause of defeating the Demon King.

Before becoming a hero, the hero was also a human being. He was not just a tool to defeat the devil. It is normal for him to have his own desires.

As long as the final path and result are correct, then if nothing bad is done and it is just some acts of enjoyment, even a goddess has no right to criticize.

"So don't jump to conclusions like that. Maybe Mr. Anxiu is just taking a few days to rest and will soon set off to defeat the Demon King."

Chris stopped Darkness from questioning her and hinted in a suggestive tone.

Well, as a kind god who cares about believers and ordinary people, she still hopes that Anxiu can defeat the devil as soon as possible.

After all, in Chris's opinion, with the support of Altria and Meli, Anshu really only needs to attack if he wants to defeat the Demon King. As long as Anshu himself does not get close to the battlefield, this journey to defeat the Demon King may not even be dangerous.

An Xiu was not surprised by this.

As the incarnation of the goddess Eris who is in charge of managing this world, Chris must know more or less about the strength of Altria and Meli. Seeing that the hope of defeating the Demon King and restoring peace to the world is just around the corner, she can watch Anxiu enjoy himself for three days before she can't help but remind him in a hint way, which shows her amazing composure.

If it were Aqua, who wanted to get rid of the Demon King as soon as possible and return to heaven, she would probably not care about Anxiu's feelings at all and would be eager to urge Anxiu 24 hours a day. She would also feel at ease urging Anxiu to defeat the Demon King while staying behind to enjoy herself.

Don't doubt it, judging from how awesome Aqua was in the early stages of the original work, she is definitely not capable of doing such a thing.

If it were Chris, the human incarnation of the goddess Eris, her attitude would be much more comfortable.

"It just so happens that I'm getting a little tired of enjoying myself in the palace these past few days. So, it's time to consider leaving the capital and going through the process of defeating the Demon King/Army."

I only heard An Xiu speak.

It was just some enjoyment of eating, drinking and having fun. An Xiu had already tasted enough of it in the Ark World.

The novelty of the first few days in the Suqing world has worn off, and everything is pretty much still going according to the original plan, forming a team of adventurers and then going to have fun with the Demon King/Army.

Thinking of this, Anshu called Altria and Meli.

"Next stop, back to Axel!"

Chapter 219: Recruitment Announcement, Youyou's Arrival

"So, you returned to Axel to form your own team of adventurers here?"

Axel, Adventurer's Guild.

Returning to the original starting point, Chris asked Anxiu.

"That's right. After all, wouldn't it be boring if there were too few people on the road to defeat the Demon King?"

An Xiu nodded and replied.

Chris couldn't find any fault with this. In her opinion, Anshu probably didn't know the specific strength of Altria and Meli who had just pledged allegiance to him. From this point of view, it was a correct choice to want to find more companions to increase the chances of winning the battle with the Demon King/Army.

As the city of novice adventurers, Axel is undoubtedly the most suitable place to start.

Mary beside her also nodded in agreement.

"Yes, that's right. After all, the hero encounters his companions during his journey, and together they defeat the demon king. This is a very orthodox and legitimate process."

"I'm just wondering what Lord Anxiu wants in his adventure companions? Do you need me and Liya to help you find some?"

"For example, Princess Alice, like Leah, is from the same royal family. Although she's young, she's already strong enough to easily slay a dragon. If necessary, Leah and I can personally take action and easily trick Princess Alice... No, I mean invite her to join the team."

"Just let the royal family go."

An Xiu rejected Meili's proposal. Although he was interested in Princess Alice in Su Qing's original work, An Xiu was not in a hurry to contact her, nor did he intend to force her into his adventurer team right now.

After all, with Artoria and Meli in charge, the adventurer team that Anshu was going to form had already exceeded in strength from the very beginning. If Alice joined the team, she would definitely overlap with Artoria.

Therefore, at least for now, Anxiu does not intend to let Meli trick Princess Alice into joining his team. If in the future Artoria has to return to the capital to act as the king and handle government affairs, Meli can ask her to find her to take over for a period of time.

And the most crucial thing is that if he takes away Artoria, the only heir to the throne in the future, and Alice, who is second only to Artoria in talent, Anshu is worried that the other royal family members fighting against the Demon King/Army on the front line, especially the old king, will explode on the spot.

"I don't have any strict requirements for the members of the adventurer team. As long as we are compatible, everything else, such as strength, is secondary."

"For example, Ms. Chris, are you willing to officially join us as a companion and form a team of adventurers with us?"

I only heard An Xiu ask.

"Well, I don't mind. I'm used to being misunderstood after all this time."

"Since you've officially invited me... well, let's form a team."

Chris nodded and spoke.

"But aren't you planning on inviting Darkness?"

"That's not necessary. Anyway, if I really need her to do anything, I can just ask Leah to give her a direct order."

Hearing this, Darkness beside him stood up immediately.

"But, damn it, you actually wanted to do this to me and Her Highness Altria. If it weren't for Her Highness Altria, I would never have surrendered to you!"

To be honest, you seem to be enjoying it right now. I feel that even without Altria as a shield, Darkness would still put up a few symbolic resistances before surrendering and declaring defeat.

"Then, next, Leah, go post the announcement for recruiting team members."

"I understand."

After receiving Anshu's order, Artoria posted the team member recruitment notice on the Adventurer's Guild's bulletin board.

Artoria and Meli were not worried about being recognized. After all, as a city for novice adventurers, there were not many people in Axel who could come into contact with the likes of Artoria and Meli.

Although the original work of Suqing presents the world in a humorous and funny style, in fact, in the world of Suqing, the class gap between nobles and adventurers is very cruel and huge.

The nobles can decide the life and death of ordinary people and adventurers at will, and because of the serious class stratification, ordinary people and adventurers may not even see a noble in their entire lives.

The reason why Sato Kazuma and his crew in the original Soharu work seem to be able to frequently come into contact with nobles and even meet Alice, a royal princess, is partly because there is Darkness, a young lady from an orthodox noble family, in the team, and partly because Sato Kazuma's adventure team at that time had already defeated several demon kings/military cadres in succession.

But even with such achievements, Sato Kazuma and his companions in the original work still did not receive much respect. Whether it was the royal guards or some more anthropomorphic nobles, they still looked down on Sato Kazuma and others as adventurers.

In this situation, unless Anshu asked Altria and Meli to reveal their identities, who could have guessed that members of the royal family and the chief magician of the kingdom's court would come to follow Anshu as adventurers?

On the contrary, because Anxiu had been openly recognized as the hero in the prophecy by the front desk lady of the Adventurer's Guild, he caused quite a commotion after his appearance. Especially after Altria posted the recruitment notice on the bulletin board, many people who were still in the Adventurer's Guild hall became restless.

You know, this is an opportunity to become a companion of the hero. If Anxiu, the hero in the prophecy, can really defeat the Demon King, then becoming a companion of the hero may mean the opportunity to cross the class and become a noble.

Soon, some self-satisfied adventurers began to step forward and recommend themselves.

Unfortunately, An Xiu turned away most of the people with just one sentence.

"I'm very sorry, our team only accepts female adventurers. Men can go back."

Just like that, more than half of the adventurers had no choice but to disperse, and those who remained were basically female adventurers.

As for these female adventurers who did not appear in the original novel and were not characters in the original novel, out of courtesy An Xiu did not ask them all to leave directly, but chose to call Meli to reject them one by one.

"I'm very sorry, but our team no longer needs a vanguard position. You don't meet our requirements."

"I'm sorry, your profession is just an ordinary magician. Our team requires at least a high-level profession to join."