See, i don't hate power fantasy.
I hate power fantasies that are too stupid to realized no one is taking them as seriously as they are about themselves XD
Are you sure it was the hero who lived and died and not a demon lord? :3
Who knows, maybe the dead are just kept in limbo until the end of the trial for revival, but that's hopeful thinking
They'd probably say to him something like "please deliver this gift for the princess from the royal court, as a gesture of our earnest feeling towards her years of faithful service to the royal family" and it would've been hilariously worse
Many farmers fell to this, staking their life savings on what was supposed to be fertile lands. Sometimes it's bad soil, other times mother nature takes and takes