Odyssey of Nirvana

By Derrick John Wiggins

Odyssey of Nirvana
Adventure of a lifetime. Adventure of piety. A story about swashbuckling pirates trying to deliver immigrants to the holy land. A gripping tale that satisfies adventure enthusiasts, allowing you to escape into a new future, the emergence of man, machines, and computers.
Arlo’s dream was to leave a system of oligarchy and turmoil in the lands of Boorish, where it’s survival of the fittest. To escape war, he had to seek Nirvana. Here, Nirvana is not only a state of mind, but rumored to be a physical place, a paradise.
Join Arlo and others on their attempted pilgrimage for a better life, steered by a bunch of heroic pirates aboard the Imhotep, flying through dangerous skies.
Here lies a quest in question: Will the Imhotep arrive safely in Nirvana?

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9798823017053

Derrick John Wiggins

DERRICK JOHN WIGGINS, who attended Lehman College, has worked as an office services associate in Goldman Sachs and Paul Hastings.

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Published by AuthorHouse 11/02/2023

ISBN: 979-8-8230-1707-7 (sc)

ISBN: 979-8-8230-1706-0 (hc)

ISBN: 979-8-8230-1705-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023920827

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Dreams of Heaven

Chapter 2 Dancing on Rocky Terrain

Chapter 3 The Port Nation

Chapter 4 Imhotep

Chapter 5 Fugitive

Chapter 6 The Irate Quadrant

Chapter 7 The Convoy

Chapter 8 The Mission

Chapter 9 A Journey to What End?

Chapter 10 Carnage

Chapter 11 The Collectors

Chapter 12 On Strange Land

Chapter 13 Hope to Move On

Chapter 14 Knowledge Is Power; Seeing Is Believing

Chapter 15 On the Sky River

Chapter 16 A Place to Retire

Chapter 17 Starting to Believe

Chapter 18 And So It Begins

Chapter 19 Angels to the Rescue

Chapter 20 City of Dreams

Chapter 21 The Watcher

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CHAPTER 1

Dreams of Heaven

H e was always curious about Nirvana. It was rumored to be impenetrable by outside invaders for thousands of years. Through hearsay, it was cities within countless cities protected by a barrier and magnificent army. Nirvana’s laws were not the same laws outside in the wild.

Here in Boorish was survival of the fittest. Every town in the wild blue yonder had its typical landholder. It was rumored that in Nirvana, law was righteous and run by a deity. All speculation of course, Arlo thought, as his life held true to a concrete world of hard labor.

Law in Boorish was an oligarchical system. All eleven nations were maintained by the selected few, fashioned into an aristocracy or colonialism. For years, the eleven realms fought each other in bloody war after gory battle. Billions of people were whisked off to war to fight for their regime. Churlish and Odium were in a vicious battle now. Arlo wanted out before Boorish declared war on somebody, anybody, again.

After the planet, Terra Firma from Arlo’s perception traveled around the sun twenty-five times, he had yet to be in war. The last war Boorish had was fifteen years ago, but he was too young to join. Boorish, housed on a fold-mountain that was once covered in oak trees, was now residence to thousands of dwellings tightly stacked and adjacent to each other.

Boorish was hard to defeat in war because of its position but not impossible. After hearing stories of war and seeing depictions, Arlo wanted no part. He felt everyone lived on one great landmass and couldn’t get along. The countries fought over territory as if this forty-three million square mile supercontinent with two billion people occupying it didn’t have enough space. All the kingdoms hated each other because they looked different, gluttony, egocentrism, and simply because they thought their way was better.

It was said that Nirvana was on a ten million square mile island, with a population of about three hundred million people. Their system was of a democracy and republic. The elites of his world said such a place didn’t exist. But then why did so many mercenaries and bounty hunters pursue and imprison, or eradicate, people who sought Nirvana?

Between working construction building cement dwellings and the possibility of being drafted into war for five years, he had had enough, and wanted out. Since his parents and all his siblings died in past wars, he wanted to see if there was a better life for himself outside of his country. He secretly met with a group of people called Vast, who thought the same as he did. For months, they had been plotting a voyage to the holy state, Nirvana. He had heard gossip of some people making it, though most did not. He was willing to take that leap of faith. In his opinion, it was better than building with stones, steel, and cables for the rest of his life.

Arlo was going to sleep well tonight because tomorrow he was departing Boorish. He, with the help of Vast, had set up a charter with a pirate to the holy nation of Nirvana. It was going to take about four days to reach this kingdom. Excited, he couldn’t sleep, and stared up at two satellites. The first, closer blemished gray moon, in its first quarter phase, illuminated the evening sky neon blue. The farther satellite in a crescent, shone pale green and poppy gold.

Finally, the stars outside his round window faded away. They disappeared because he fell asleep in his bed, in his white and brown stone apartment, high in the mountains. As he dozed, he knew he had to get up before sunrise. With dreams of Nirvana in his head, tonight he was in heaven.

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CHAPTER 2

Dancing on Rocky Terrain

A rlo awoke just before dawn. He knew what he had to do to prepare for an adventure of a lifetime. In myrtle colored thawb and cloak, equipped with his backpack and two daggers on his belt, he was ready for the expedition to the divine kingdom. He briskly walked down the mountain on a granite trail out of the city under the indigo morning sky. He had to first go to Behemoth to travel on a vessel to Nirvana. A priest named Cooper was to meet him on the path to help him cross the Talisman Desert.

Cloud cover kept the day literally blue as it began to drizzle. It took forty minutes to walk down the mountainside, leaving his cement world behind. Though everyone was still asleep, soon the markets would be full, children running about, dogs barking, and civilians heading