(Actually, you go first until I use my Dirty Trick. Also, Rini needs to tell us the day and location of the match.)
Shou Ren gestures and mutters an incantation, and a tiny sapling bursts upwards into a huge willow tree, absorbing his foe’s necromantic bolt. As the willow blackens and decays under the onslaught, it stretches out its writhing roots to grapple the Bright Necromancer and lash him with his own dark energies.
The willow quells the grotto; fends off the storm of the sickle!