Step 1: Flee your backwater village.
Step 2: Become an adventurer.
Step 3: Befriend a Dragon Lord, Queen of Fairia, and a Demon God.
Step 4: Seize a kingdom's throne.
Step 5: Wage a war with the Empire.
Step 6: ???
Step 7: Win. Obviously. Become Empress of everything.

This is Adele's guide to ascension, a nameless commoner who just kept failing upwards into absolute power. And really, is there any harm in unifying a continent and forcibly dragging it into an Industrial Revolution? It's for their own good. Probably.