When the silvery white bolts tipped with mighty magic power pierced through the air, they left behind crisscrossing blazing trails in the sky. The bolts penetrated the protection spells and enchantments like paper. That was followed by offensive magic from the Letta runes, which destroyed the witches' defenses in the cemetery. To survive in the Dark Ages, the witches had earlier laid down layers of defenses in the forms of enchanted tombstones and twisted dead trees around their lair. Those objects, the witches' primary shields, could only momentarily delay the advances of the demon hunters.