Who said that being a Mage was a job with a limitless future? Battles, ancient texts, magic, scholars, half-baked alchemy…how much money would they have to spend?
Competing with barbarians in terms of intelligence, competing with gnomes in terms of physical strength, competing with dragons in terms of singing, and researching delicacies with elves-who said that mages would be poor until they were old? Do you see the floating city in the sky? I have an island in the West Ocean.
The people who strolled in the astral plane, raised pigs in the divine territory, and looked up from their thrones would never understand this kind of idle happiness.