Archive in Peril

Kali, the fierce goddess of time, landed a blow on Nik, the stoic god of wisdom. The clash of their weapons sent shockwaves through the Archive. 

The clash of Kali's war axe and Nik's sword shook the whole domain. 

Kali was still using time conundrum to disrupt the old god of wisdom, but Nik was no pushover and was still standing firm. Both of them continued to clash all over the place with great speed.

Kali was monitoring the cooldown of the devil's hollow replica that Nik was using, she used a time glitch again and Nik was able to negate it with the Devil's hollow, seeing that the blade would take ten seconds to cool before the negation could be used again, Kali decided to do something to give her an advantage over the unwavering god. 

Time loop. Kali activated a time loop, replaying the ten-second cool-down time of the devil's hollow.

Since she was using a loop. It meant they would be replaying the exact moment again and again. But these were not mortals, seeing that their fight was going nowhere and he could no longer count on the devil's hollow, so he decided to change his attack approach.

From deep inside his essence, he drew something out, something even Kali was not expecting. Even while suffering from soul deficiency due to time conundrum, Nik pulled out a soul residing deep within his essence.

"Are you trying to kill yourself?" Kali asked.

Maybe… Nik replied and crushed the soul with his arm. He used the essence residing in the soul to disrupt Kali's time loop. Immediately the loop was disrupted Kali thought he was going to use the devil's hollow, but the god of wisdom did something else. 

 The runes in his sword began to glow and rewrite, morphing the sword into a crackling thunderbolt. 

"Isn't that…" Kali said recognizing the weapon immediately.

"Tch, that old geezer"

A smirk appeared on Nik's face as he used the thunderbolt to attack. 

"Thunder Cry!" he roared, lightning arcing through the chamber. Kali was caught in the attack.

She tried to come out from the attack but she noticed that Nik had restored the loop and she could not escape unless she broke the loop.

Immediately she did, Nik changed back to the devil's hollow.

Kali was expecting the Old Geezer to use a long-range sword attack, but who says you have to use your sword when fighting a battle? 

He teleported himself to Kali's side and grabbed her head, hitting it on a rock he had conjured at that moment. 

The impact was so strong, that Kali let out a loud yelp, but the old geezer was not done. He summoned more rocks and sent Kali flying against them with a kick.

Nik looked at Kali who was looking disoriented and almost defeated, but there was something, something he seemed to be missing,

"Why is she hell-bent on fighting, it's not as if she can defeat me, at least not on her own...." As the thought came, he suddenly opened his eyes in realization.

"It seems you've finally caught on," Kali said.

Suddenly the skies of the domain exploded violently, and Nik could see some of the fairies residing in His domain being blown away by the explosion.

"What did you do?" Nik roared in anger.

He saw Tink, his assistant, falling with wound all over her body and tried to help her but, he suddenly heard a voice behind him

"What are you looking at old man?" the voice said.

He suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest. He looked down and saw a weapon Stick out of him. He looked up at the falling fairy, Tink, and saw her suddenly turn to dust.

"Loki" Nik said with a grunt.

"You're quite slow for a wise god," Loki said. 

"Where's the real Tink?" Nik asked furious.

"Should you be asking that? You have a sword in your chest. You should be worried for yourself". Loki said

It wasn't that the god of wisdom didn't feel it, in fact with the time conundrum still affecting him and Loki's sword doing god knows what to him, he was sure things were bad, Nik didn't just care for himself at the moment.

"You should have activated your domain from the start old man. You would have won if you did".

"I don't do regrets" Nik said as his body suddenly turned and grabbed Loki by the neck. Nik wanted to hit him on the ground but the god of mischief suddenly disappeared from his grasp and Loki appeared beside Kali.

"You shouldn't underestimate the old man," Kali said to Loki. 

"He's truly a troublesome customer". Loki replied

"Well, it doesn't matter now, he's already weak enough". Loki stated

"Did you get it?" Kali asked.

"Of course" Loki replied and handed Kali a golden tablet.

Nik saw the Tablet and was even more furious. He removed Loki's sword from his chest and noticed a dark corruption spreading quickly from the wound. He wanted to use the devil's hollow, but the corruption and the effect of the time conundrum were too much to even move a muscle. He looked at Loki as he was handing the Alichatnen to Kali and spoke.

"That doesn't belong to you, Kali".

"Oh, master. It doesn't belong to you either" she replied and kept it under her robe.

"You two came here to weaken me, and I must say, I let my guard down, but you should both know, this is not enough to finish me. So, is that why you brought Nyxa" Nik said

The goddess of darkness suddenly appeared like the cold night, her presence even heavier than any other thing. The goddess of time was strong and had a powerful essence, the god of wisdom resourceful and calculating, the god of mischief deceitful and cunning, but the goddess of darkness was an embodiment of danger. After all, the most atrocious and ominous things lurk under the guise of darkness..

Now that his body has been corrupted by darkness, it was easy for Nyxa to finally deal the final blow. Darkness erupted from Nyxa and began to cover the whole place. 

The god of wisdom tried to move but battling the Divinity of two gods in his body was too much, even for him. 

"You're going to doom us all" Nik said to Kali.

"No old god. I'm going to save us" She said.

"Do it Nyxa" Kali said.

The goddess of darkness finally covered the whole domain with darkness, covering the god of wisdom too. Few seconds later the once vibrant domain looked lifeless, the Archive was now reduced to a pitiful state

"So we finally sealed him" Kali said as she dropped to the ground.

The god of wisdom was a more fearsome opponent than she had predicted, although they won, the struggle was far from over. 

"Are you sure no one would notice what happened here". Nyxa asked

"Not immediately, but by the time they do, we'll have concluded most of our plans". Kali replied 

"Nik is not dead anyways, but when he returns, all hell will probably break loose". Loki said

"If, he returns". Kali corrected

"What do you mean, are you going to do something to him?"

"I have my plans, but when it's time, I'll fill you in. For now let's leave. We have a ritual to do".

The three divines suddenly disappeared from the Archive, leaving the god of wisdom sealed along with his domain