Heaven Domain (Iwan Cliff)

Chapter 227 Iwan Cliff and the Senior Elder

Chapter 227 Iwan Cliff and the Senior Elder

"Iwan..." the Senior Elder said in a shaky voice, his face darkening. The cold blast ruffled his gray hair and flicked his face of aging and tiresome.

Standing in the desert in the sand dome several thousand miles from the Elder and facing the cold wind, Iwan turned into silence as hearing the old man's husky and tired voice, and his heart was inundated with flaming rage and overwhelming sorrow. He could never imagine how much pressure this man was enduring that forced him to make that decision.

He was the supreme leader of the Dragon Kingdom but had to lower his head and be silent like this to the dilemma he was facing. Everyone at the airport of Gotham City was staring into the Senior Elder with unyielding spirits in their eyes, no words being brought up. No one wants the Senior Elder himself to lead the fight on the External Battlefield, but if he would, what was the situation?

In ancient times, people would call it that "The emperor leads his troops into battle", the last choice of an emperor when a dynasty was on the verge of death, and he was forced to stand and fight. And that was the path the Dragon Kingdom had to choose right at the moment, and the Senior Elder had to stand up for his Kingdom and fight on the External Battlefield. Everyone at the airport, the whole crew, the warriors of the Military Headquarters, and the personal guards of the Senior Elder, the last strong force of the Kingdom, all felt tears well up in their eyes silently.

Iwan Cliff in the deep desert was also wavering his mind, for this time the rules must be broken no matter if it was he or the Senior Elder who took the move. The consequences would be nastier than everyone thought. Yet, the Senior Elder had no other choice left, and neither did Iwan.

After being quiet for a long while, Iwan Cliff was gazing into the Dragon Kingdom in the South and into the warriors who dedicated themselves to garrisoning the frontier at the southern border.

Iwan spoke to the Senior Elder, "Sir, please stay in Gotham and wait for my news. I've already been on the External Battlefield, and there has to be someone watching the Kingdom."

After Iwan finished his words, the Senior Elder, at the other end of the phone call, worriedly replied, "Stay calm and come back, kid! I don't have much life ahead of me. I'll go to the External Battlefield! Come back! You've got a wife and a little girl! Iwan, you must listen to me and stay put!"

The Senior Elder was worried, but Iwan laughed, and after taking a deep breath, he chuckled, "Sir, I've taken a move already. The news is coming to you soon, and you should prepare for the worst situation. There's no one other than you that can handle what is to come. I'm gonna be okay. Relax. That's it. Stay safe, will you?"

Iwan hung up the phone and took a deep breath after saying so, his eyes reddening and wet.

Distantly, a flock of helicopters flew in Iwan's direction. Under the sand dome, the cold gust wouldn't stop wuthering, making the moment more silent with no words coming out of Teddy Huggins and the warriors nearby.

"Lord Huggins, investigate the coordinates of the reinforcements of the three Military Headquarters on the External Regions!" Iwan asked Teddy Huggins.

Anxiety flashed upon Teddy Huggins' face, and without further thinking, he replied, "You can't go, my lord! Don't be impulsive!"

Iwan shook his head with a smile and, his eyes locking onto the land of the Kingdom, spoke slowly, "It's okay. Are we going to let the Senior Elder himself go if I don't? And then start a more serious war between kingdoms? I'm gonna be fine since I have leveled up so much. Even if some of the old guys want to go hard on me, they can't kill me. Just relax!"

Even though Teddy Huggins could sense the ten-time stronger field in Iwan's body, he shook his head reluctantly, because he knew Iwan's power was not enough. If Iwan did break the rules and destroy the reinforcements of the three Military Headquarters on the External Battlefield, that would be a poke-the-sleeping-dragon act, and some rule keepers with unfathomable force would spare no strength against Iwan. He didn't have the confidence that Iwan could survive that then.

Iwan Cliff noticed Teddy Huggins' concerned eyes and chuckled, "It's fine. Ask Ivy to do the investigation already. Now the Dragon Kingdom is in its most dangerous times, and our brothers are fighting for its existence. I, as the Lord, can't hide, can I? Since there must be someone standing up for everything, why can't it be Iwan Cliff?"

With complexity in his eyes, Teddy Huggins shot a glance at Iwan, and when he was about to say something, Iwan interfered.

"Well... Great! I'll come with you even if the journey means death, my lord!" Teddy Huggins took a deep breath and said. Then he immediately contacted Ivy for digging out the locations of the reinforcements of the three Military Headquarters on the External Battlefield so that he could arrange the fastest and shortest route for Iwan.

When Teddy Huggins went to contact Ivy, Iwan paused a moment watching the landed helicopters, and took out his phone to make a face-time call with Jayna Brown.

Soon, the call connected and Jayna Brown in a white dress showed up on the screen. She was very happy to get the call from Iwan.

Before Iwan could say anything, Jayna Brown said to his husband with a smile, "Honey, are you coming back? The things are done there?" Even her eyes were yearning for his return.

After a quiet short while, Iwan fixed his eyes on Jayna Brown and said, "Jayna, I'm sorry. I may need one or two more days before returning home."Original content from NôvelDrama.Org.

Jayna Brown's body trembled as she heard Iwan's answer, her eyes immediately brimmed with tears, but she put on a forced smile. "Well, okay, honey, Emily and I are waiting for you at home, " she nodded. "Come back after all things are done... It's okay, we are not in a hurry, but... watch your back for yourself, will you?" In the end, her voice started to shiver.

"Yeah, Don't worry. I will..." nodded Iwan.

Jayna Brown then beckoned Emily who was playing with Sally Miller several feet from her, "Emily, Emily, it's dad! Come and say something to your dad..."

"Dad? I'm coming. I'm coming!" Emily ran towards her mom right away and grabbed the phone from Jayna's hands. "Dad, dad!" Emily said with a smile to Iwan on the screen. "When will you be back? I miss you so much..."

Iwan smiled at his girl, "Emily, dad's gonna be back soon. I promise you, tomorrow I'll be back, okay?"

Emily, kind of disappointed, nodded her head and pouted, "Okay, but you must bring gifts to me, dad, and don't leave us after you come back."

"Yeah... I will not leave you after I come back this time." Iwan replied with a nod and a smile after his body shook for a second.

Emily was a five-year-old after all, so she immediately threw the unhappy feelings behind her. And then she told Iwan, "Dad, grandpas have bought me many rabbits. They are on the grass, hanging out with little ducks and chickens. How adorable they are! Dad, when you come back tomorrow, we will feed them together, okay?"

Iwan chuckled, "Okay when I come back, we're gonna feed the little animals together..."

"It's all done... My lord..." Teddy Huggins came to Iwan at the moment and said gruffly.

Iwan looked back to nod at Teddy Huggins, but the moment he did so, Jayna Brown caught a glimpse of the armed helicopters that were ready to take off behind Iwan, and armed warriors of the Dragon Kingdom were surrounding the vehicle. This scene made Jayna Brown quiver so much.

When Iwan turned his face to the screen, Jayna Brown put on her smile again, "Go to your business, honey. Emily and I... are waiting for you at home..."

Iwan felt his heart so lingering on his wife and daughter when watching them on the screen. If there were any possibility, any chance that he could have lived the rest of his life as he did, he would have done that way, even if that meant he must give up everything. But the reality wouldn't offer him that kind of chance, and the whole Dragon Kingdom was at its most difficult juncture. Besides, it remained uncertain whether his three thousand brothers were alive on the External Battlefield, and once the reinforcements of the three External Military Headquarters arrived, each of his brothers would be dead, certainly. All the fighters from the Dragon Kingdom on the External Battlefield wouldn't survive that, either, including the three elders who'd been fighting their lives for the Kingdom, who Iwan himself sent to the field.

Iwan didn't have any other choice...

Tears warming his eyes, Iwan noded to Jayna Brown and Emily, "Yeah, don't worry. I will come back tomorrow. Tomorrow, I'll be back. I will."

"Okay, bye, dad..." Emily reluctantly waved goodbye to her father.

Jayna Brown also smiled, "Honey... Stay safe, and watch your own back..."

Iwan's body trembled, and he nodded and hung up the phone. And then, having taken a breath, he stood up and paced to the helicopter without any hesitation.

Shortly after Iwan Cliff and Teddy Huggins were on seats, the helicopter roared and hopped off, heading for the nearest Military-only airport in the north. Two fastest fighter jets were waiting over there.

Half an hour later, two hurricane jets of the Dragon Kingdom launched from the deep desert with great speed and flew to the great ocean in the distance.

Target: the reinforcements of the three Military Headquarters on the External Battlefield!