The father of the prophet
I am a goblin, the chief of this Village, one would think I would live a busy yet simple life ..but I can quickly see that reality crumbling as I watched my first daughter apparently rip apart ..space? She called it that, and then went on to casually mention how she will go visit our God ...and I fully believe her, in fact I have almost been expecting this.
The sheer absurdity of the situation takes me back a few weeks ago, remembering everything that happened I can't help but think.
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Who could possibly have seen this coming?
I didn't that's for sure, things weren't going great, after father passed away and I took the role of Village chief my life has been stressful, I had just married the woman of my life and I was now thrust with so much responsibility so suddenly, I was always one that didn't accept things staying still and rushed to complete everything with everything I have, whether it be hunting or chores or anything at all! but taking care of a village is a lot more difficult of a task than I imagined, truly I didn't know what I was expecting, this job is a continuous difficult task that ends at one's death, but I vowed to make the village the best it can be, so I won't let them down.
I worked hard, did what I could for everyone that needed me, so when my wife got pregnant I thought I was finally being rewarded by my hard work, our God had blessed us! But I couldn't have imagined what would happen.
The pregnancy was harder than we foresaw.. my wife's state was not good, goblins like us have a high fertility to compensate for our low life spans that is something commonly known and we Goblins are of course very grateful for being like this, we are proud to be what we are! We are all a big family that keeps growing, But.. high fertility rate means a high chance of miscarriage happening.. it's far from uncommon, so when my wife started showing signs of difficulty ..everyone started to say that I should be ready for it to happen, talking as if it was already a lost cause, "it's just the way things are" they said and "I am sorry.. but I am sure you can do it eventually" they commented, they told me to prepare for heartbreak, but as much as they wanted to help me, even saying those difficult things out of concern, I just couldn't accept it, I couldn't! After all my hard work ...would our god really reward it with a tragedy? Our god may be a great powerful one ..cruel some might say, but he protected us for generations now! He would not allow such. Thing to happen when his followers need him would he?
Thinking about it now, I was definitely being childish of me to think like this, if it was up to our god to choose ...why would he allow so much suffering to so many other families? Of so many other servants why would we be different? Because I am a chief? No to our god we are equal I have full faith in that, still I couldn't accept such cruelty.. so prayed, every day I did, multiple times and it happened she got better! The birth went well! "A miracle!" I thought and "Our god listened to me!" At that time I was ready to do a festival to him out of sheer gratitude ...even if it resulted in me eating scraps for the rest of the month, after all there she was, a beautiful little girl.. My beautiful little girl.. ..that was of course before it happened.
As soon as the happiness filled me I felt something else, sheer terror, an inexplicably immense aura emitted from the baby just born, the aura was powerful, angry and aggressive even! Like dark purple strings it moved through the house to the sky, if I didn't know any better I would have thought an Evil god had just been born! However I knew exactly what happened.
My prayers were heard, but of course it wouldn't be free, I already knew that with the gods were to intervene my daughter wouldn't be normal.. but a prophet, one who would dedicate her life to them, and my daughter was saved.. no daughter was chosen! Brought to this world to fulfill the wishes of the gods! This immense power is nothing but a gift from them to this world, my daughter is a great that will bring forth the will of the gods!
I can't help but kneel down in reverence and tell the other goblins to do the same, this is a historical moment, a turning point for all of us! A sign of the things yet to come.. kneeling down in reverence and fear, I can feel myself feeling with pride and honor at being the father of such a being, I then speak
"Great prophet.. I vow to serve you and our gods as they see fit"
this is the very least I can do to one who saved my wife.. to one who saved my daughter, no matter what I will be grateful for this gift that was given to me, I will spread the word everyone in this village will know about the great prophet, as always I will do my best at this and be grateful no matter what happens ...I can almost see an expression forming on the great prophet's face as her aura becomes less agreesive, I can only imagine what that great being is thinking!
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...Excuse me green people but uh, why are you kneeling to a baby? Was I born in some weird baby focused isekai world?? Are babies considered some sort of divine being here? ..if so uh ...maybe getting Isekaid wasn't that great of a blessing after all.