While Evan dealt with the Witch, in an alley elsewhere...
The Expert Level Demon Hunter was sprinting ahead at tremendous speed.
As he ran, he waved both hands, leaving one purple circle after another behind him and on the walls to either side.
They promptly vanished.
These special Beyonder powers, created by combining ancient incantations with subsequently developed runes, were known as Witcher Signs.
They differed from traditional magic, which required incantations and rituals.
This was a special form of magic that channeled Beyonder power through runes and gestures.
Originally, they did not really qualify as Beyonder Characteristics. They were more of a shortcut for casting magic.
The power they displayed generally had little destructive potential.
They were usually only useful for personal defense, impact, confusion, and setting traps for individual targets.
But as time passed, the lower ranks of Demon Hunters were so weak that they could not obtain powerful Beyonder Characteristics or ones belonging to a coherent system.
Gradually, more and more Demon Hunters chose to devote themselves entirely to Witcher Signs and continually develop them.
Passed down through generations, they were combined with the characteristics of the Demon Hunter profession and fused with the Beyonder bestiality of Monsters.
By now, they had more or less developed into Beyonder Characteristics with their own distinct branches.
As this tradition continued, the divisions and barriers within Witcher Signs also multiplied.
Most Demon Hunters generally practiced only one or two types.
Hill, for example, practiced confusion and impact.
Richard, meanwhile, seemed to have quite a remarkable talent for Witcher Signs, practicing confusion, impact, and defense simultaneously.
The middle-aged man practiced two types.
The Impact Sign and the Trap Sign.
The Trap Sign had a fairly simple effect: it drastically reduced every kind of speed possessed by a target caught in its