Sorry for the delay, I have distant relatives at home and I they need me to act as a chaperone, I'll try to write some more, but for more or less a week chapter may or may not appear daily.

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After a full twelve hours of fighting, the barrier was reduced to just one hundred square meters, and only three existences were left: a four meters tall and two meters width dark purple skeleton, an undead troll and Jack.

"Is this really something that can be won?"

Jack's doubts were quite on point; not only had he fought continuously, but he was also repeatedly injured, though thanks to his regeneration he managed to keep himself with a little more than half of his health points, his stamina had dwindled to the last ten percent of what he has.

Moreover, those last two boss seemed in perfect conditions, like if they hadn't even fought and just arrived here after a walk in the park. Not only that, they also stayed at the two opposite sides of the clearing and like oil and water, they didn't even move, like if they had not seen each other.

"What kind of bullshit is this?"

However, no matter what, if Jack couldn't kill the two of them in twenty minutes, then the one who would end up dead would certainly be him, and he was painfully aware of this.

"I can't kill the both of them, the skeleton is holding one of his own ribs like a sword, and those bones looked very hard, while the other is holding a branch of that strange plant, so it can be considered a stone club... the only way to defeat them is to put one against the other" considered Jack.

With that thought, Jack sprinted towards the undead troll, who seemed easy to provoke and enrage; after entering in the ten meters radius from the troll, the undead started to awake, as if it had just realized that someone else entered its territory, and in one breath the troll swinged its club in Jack direction.

Though Jack avoided the swing by a hair's breadth, the debris produced from the impact with the earth shaved away ten percent of Jack total life; that added to the fact that Jack had only half of his health points before the fight, it was enough to make even the bravest soul tremble, because that damage had been only from the residual attack of the undead troll.

Trolls have always been known for their regeneration and strength, however when the troll became an undead, he lost his exceedingly fast regeneration, but gained unparalleled strength for its level, and now Jack also understood this.

Without pause, Jack used Ki reinforcement to jump on the club that was still in the ground and then Charge+; thanks to the speed boost Jack ran from the club to the arm of the undead troll and then all the way to the shoulder, after which he jumped again while also activating Shadow claws.

Jack pierced the right eye of the troll with his claws, but the troll didn't show any sign of taking damage, not even discomfort. 

Seeing this, Jack retreated, while taking a good look at the wound he inflicted to the undead, that was when he understood: the troll was already blind, and because his stink was so strong, it couldn't use those two senses in order to determine where his enemy is, so by exclusion, the troll was using the vibrations from the earth to locate Jack.

This also meant that if Jack wanted to lure the undead, he needed to remain in his ten meters radius and avoid both the club and the debris sent in his way.

Something like that was quite impossible, so Jack decided to use earth magic to reproduce those vibrations in order to bring the troll near the skeleton, so that they would start to fight between themselves.

Or so it should have went, but when the troll neared five meters from the skeleton, the both of them just looked at each other, without fighting.

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"This is ridicolous, does this mean that I need to fight with the both of them and no tricks?".

It now seemed like the idea of bringing them together was not the best, "but what is done is done, no use crying over spilled milk" concluded Jack while running in the directions of the skeleton.

The first to react was the skeleton, who swinged his (rib) freely, though the strength behind each blow was enormous (while still weaker than the troll), but it was in vain, as the speed was not even half of what Jack could avoid, and it didn't even create debris from the point of impact.

Activating Charge+ Jack advanced without the skeleton being able to follow him, and when in range, Jack used Shadow claws to hit the bones of the skeleton, but the result left him stunned.

Not even a scratch could be seen on the impact point of the skill, as if he never did it; that was only a hit to measure the skeleton defences and Jack expected the skeleton's bones to be sturdy, but not this much. 

Recovering from the surprise, Jack found himself between the two undeads, with just the time to avoid a hit from the troll's club by jumping, but not the debris that followed it, so he lost another tenth of his life; and as if that was not enough, the skeleton swinged his sword towards Jack who was still in midair.

With dumb luck, the hit that would've killed him never arrived, as the skeleton's sword was too long and penetrated in the troll's left arm, which was in the way.

Jack had no time to think, as the troll had already taken back its club and was reading for another attack, Jack used the sword which was still in the troll's arm as a platform, and went inside the skeleton's rib cage throught the space left from the broken rib.

The troll swinged its club horizontally, delivering a substantial blow to the skeleton ribcage. Though the skeleton's bones resisted, the ribcage which was hit was in a very bad condition; it was clear that with another blow it would shatter.

Looking at the damage, Jack understood that he had greatly underestimated the strength of the undead troll, but at this point of time he could only make use of it and hope it wouldn't hit him.

The skeleton had retrieved his sword, but was now stunned, and Jack used this opportunity to jump from the ribcage to the skeleton shoulder, and then used magic to let the troll know of his position.

The troll hadn't even a shred of doubt and swinged the club again, just that this time, Jack jumped down, and the club hit the skeleton's head, separating it from the body and sending it to shatter against the barrier.

Without the head, the remaining bones disassembled, falling to the ground. This stunned the troll as it couldn't understand where Jack was.

Not wasting time, Jack tried to lift one of the bones in order to use it as a sword of some kind, but they were too heavy; activating Ki cloak Jack tried again, but even if he could barely lift one of them, it wouldn't be of any use.

Concentrating the Ki cloak in only his arm, Jack tried yet again to lift the rib that the skeleton was using as a sword, but even if this time he was able to somehow use it, it didn't mean he would be able to use it in a fight.

Retreating with the bone, Jack planted it in the ground with the tip in the direction of the sky, then he began to taunt the troll.

When the troll reached three meters from him, Jack used earth magic to create a hole in the ground, and at the same time he used all his magic to make the earth behind the troll hit its back, successfully making the undead trip.

Obviously the distance was calculated, and when the troll fell, the sword impaled him right through the head, killing him in a blow.

Confirming that the troll was dead Jack fell in the ground, as his stamina had thoroughly been depleted.

Congratulation, you reached the requirements for the evolution, you can chose between-

Jack hadn't even the strength left to answer and drifted to sleep.