"Even if you did manage to become a living champion despite all that, you’d get dragged into factional disputes between nobles who wanted you to mediate for them. And people in that position had a bit of a tendency to get murdered—it wasn’t an easy life, to say the least. Zelos had spent a while looking up the country’s history using the books he’d borrowed, but he had yet to hear of a single soldier or mage who’d gone on to die a comfortable death after becoming famous."
A quote from an isekai power fantasy novel about someone middle-aged. He later stopped acting his age, from second-hand information. That still doesn't make that quote less chuckleworthy.