How exactly is the fact that if you wet this very specific type of rock, rub it all over your body, and it'll make you smell different and get sick less...in ANY way obvious?
I'm betting it's a Hitman situation. He has to know everything and be able to do everything, so that he can be anyone to kill anyone.
He already said he mastered cooking so he could pose as a chef to kill someone. He probably learned all that science to pose as a professor for a hit.
She called the NEET "number two-hundred"-and-something. She is CLEARLY not putting all her eggs in one basket.
My prediction? The Hero is an otherworlder the goddess herself empowered to kill the Demon King, but she made him too powerful and he's a threat to her and she's trying to clean up hermess.