Exhibit 4.2

SPECIMEN ORDINARY SHARE CERTIFICATE

CERTIFICATE NUMBER SHARES

_________

HEROIC EMPIRE ACQUISITION LIMITED

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE CAYMAN ISLANDS

ORDINARY SHARE

SEE REVERSE FOR
CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

THIS CERTIFIES THAT CUSIP:

IS THE OWNER OF

FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE ORDINARY SHARES OF PAR VALUE $0.0001 PER SHARE

HEROIC EMPIRE ACQUISITION LIMITED

transferable on the books of the Company in person or by duly authorized
attorney upon surrender of this certificate properly endorsed. This certificate is not valid unless
countersigned by the Transfer Agent and registered by the Registrar. Witness the seal of
the Company and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.

Dated:

Chairman Chief Financial Officer

HEROIC EMPIRE ACQUISITION LIMITED
CORPORATE
SEAL 2021
CAYMAN ISLANDS

HEROIC EMPIRE ACQUISITION LIMITED

The Company will furnish without charge to each shareholder who so requests the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of share or series thereof of the Company and the qualifications, limitations, or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights. This certificate and the Ordinary Shares represented thereby are issued and shall be held subject to all the provisions of the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association and all amendments thereto and resolutions of the Board of Directors providing for the issuance of Ordinary Shares (copies of which may be obtained from the secretary of the Company), to all of which the holder of this certificate by acceptance hereof assents.

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM - as tenants in common

TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties

JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT -		Custodian
	(Cust)		(Minor)
	under Uniform Gifts to Minors

Act
	(State)

Additional Abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

For value received, ___________________________ hereby sell, assign and transfer unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
OTHER
IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE)

shares

represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint

Attorney

to transfer the said share on the books of the within named Company will full power of substitution in the premises.

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Dated	______________________________
		NOTICE:	The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.

Signature(s) Guaranteed:

THE SIGNATURE(S) MUST BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15).

The holder of this certificate shall be entitled to receive funds from the trust account only in the event of (i) the liquidation of the trust account upon a failure to consummate a business combination, as described in the prospectus covering the securities or (ii) if the holder seeks to convert his respective shares or sells them to the Company in a tender offer, in each case in connection with (1) the consummation of a business combination or (2) in connection with an amendment to our Memorandum and Articles of Association prior to the consummation of a business combination. In no other circumstances shall the holder have any right or interest of any kind in or to the trust account.

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