Hearing Elena saying that they passed, at first both Bushiki and Cristina looked at her with a bewildered expression. According to their judgement, the test suddenly finished even before the time limit was over, so naturally they had thought that they had failed the second stage.

Seeing their surprised expression, Elena smiled slightly and explained –

“The second stage was basically designed to show the world your true worth. That only only included your combat potential but also every aspect of your being. If I was there in your situation, at the last moment, I actually would have even crawled in the mud to save my life, as that was my true nature, the nature of a survivor.

But as gods, your true natures are different. You all can’t crawl in the mud as that is conflicting with your pride and values. And that is your true nature. And by embracing that nature and staying true to your belief, both of you have managed to pass the second stage.”

After Elena’s explanation they finally realised that the second stage was finally over. They still have the chance to break the level limit. They eagerly asked Elena about the third and the final round. Elena did not disappoint them and explained –

“Now for the final round, you need to pass a test of the soul and willpower. Normally this was supposed to be a hard test, but as both of you are gods, this is not going to be a very hard test for you two.”

Hearing that they heaved a sigh of relief. If the last test became even harder than the previous one, then they really would not have any more chance to complete it. So it was relieving to know that the last test was not as hard as the previous one.

Still they did not let their guard down. Actually all these tests were supposed to be taken by the will of the universe. But as the guider of the world, Elena was able to design the details of the tests. The final results would still be judged by the will of the universe, but as the test taker, Elena could certainly do a little bit of cheating all within a certain limit.

For the last test, she chose a structure she had created for the purpose of training a person’s heart and will. It was a staircase with a total of ten thousand stairs. One needed to have a very solid heart and soul to climb all ten steps. And to qualify for the limit break one needed to climb at least five thousand stairs.

Elena explained all that to Bushiki and Cristina and they started to climb the stairs. At first they were a bit cautious so their speed was very slow, but soon they found out that the climbing in this stage was not hard so they increased their speed.

Finally their speed decreased once more when they crossed the two thousandth stair as the difficulty level suddenly jumped after this. But still their speed was still steady and both of them crossed the next two thousand stairs quite easily.

After the four thousandth stair the difficulty level jumped once more but as the soul of a god was especially tough they were able to reach the target of five thousandth stair without much trouble. But they did not stop after just finishing the target. They wanted to see how far they could go in this staircase.

Their speed finally dropped to a very low point after crossing the six thousandth step and Cristina was forced to stop at 7999th step and was unable to cross the eight thousandth step. As someone yet to break through the limit, it was a very impressive result. But Bushiki went one stop farther and reached the eight thousandth step showing her tenacity as a great warrior.

Then both of the goddesses needed to rest for quite some time as the fatigue of the soul was not easily cured. Then when they were done resting Elena explained the next procedure to them.

“With completing the previous test, now both of you are eligible to limit break with the permission from the will of the universe. But before that I have something to give to you.”

They were very happy that now they had no more tests to give in order to become a limit breaker and were even happier that Elena was going to give something to them. So, without being able to hold back her curiosity, Bushiki asked –

“What are you going to give us, Elena Onee-sama ?”

Elena had a mysterious smile on her face and she informed the two absolute goddesses with a smug look –

“This big sister of yours is going to give you special abilities as gifts. After you two worked so hard, you definitely deserve some special rewards for your efforts. Fufu, so I will be the one to give reward to you two.”

Both of their eyes lit up in joy. They started asking like kids about the ability they would be getting. And Elena explained it to them calmly.

“For Bushiki, the main problem you face most of the time and will be facing in the future after your limit break is the lack of good weapons matching your level. As the Goddess of Myriad Weapons, you have mastered not one or two but hundreds of weapons. So finding so many different types of weapon, all matching your own high level is very hard, almost impossible. So to solve this problem I designed a little ability.”

Hearing Elena saying it Bushiki was overcome with emotion. She could not even explain how much trouble she felt whenever she was unable to find a good weapon to test her skills. Warriors should not be picky with their weapon, but a good weapon was also a warrior’s best friend. So if the ability could really solve this problem, it will be a huge boost to Bushiki.

“You can check the details of the ability after getting it. For now, just be satisfied with this much details. And for Cristina, what I’m going to give you is an ability that would allow you to analyse, record and modify any and all kinds of magic. This skill once was one of the most sought out skills of a world of magicians. And it is a very strong ability with high potential if used properly.”

Both of the absolute goddesses were happy with the description of the type of ability they were getting and could not wait to get their hands on it. Elena also did not make them wait any longer and hugged both of them at the same time.

There were other ways to give the abilities to the goddesses, but as a big sister Elena wanted to give this ability to them while trying to spoil them as much as she can. Both Bushiki and Cristina felt something warm entering their body and new knowledge appeared on their minds. They also instinctively realised that they had gotten new abilities and what those abilities were capable of doing. Obviously they did not understand the whole ability but at least got the gist of it. For a more detailed understanding that needed to try the abilities out and to do experiments with it.

But that was something that would do in the future. Currently, they need to take the final step and have to break through their limits.

…

Bushiki and Cristina went far away from each other and got ready to break through as they did not want to disturb each other. Then they utilised the extra experience points stored in their pool and silently their level increased from 999 to 1000.

It was just an increase of a single level but the change was drastic. Their stats showed an explosive growth and all of them increased by several thousands of points. Their skill also suddenly leveled up and reached new unseen heights.

The reason why Elena gave them the abilities before they broke through their limit was because she wanted them to boost their ability levels as much as they could through the rewards they would get from the limit breaking. And that did exactly that.

Their newest abilities were only at level one when they got it. But after they used the skill points that they got for reaching four digit levels, those abilities immediately reached the level 3. They also used the enlightenment chance to boost the power of their foundation and all the stored experience points to make their levels as high as possible.

Bushiki used the enlightenment to make more of her weapon skills to reach the king rank and Cristina on the other hand used it to gain experience with the Concept magic. She was even successful to understand a brand new concept magic which was material magic.

After the limit breaking process was over, they found out that their strength had increased exponentially and they immediately came to Elena to thank her for all her help.

Since this day, the world of RASHTROYNI would have two more limit breakers inside it.

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