"While I think the runes are self-explanatory, I'll explain them anyway," she said before looking up slightly and beginning-
"Battle runes. While man arcane mages use this type of rune, it is in my opinion, the least important one." she explained, making me raise a brow in surprise.
"Battle runes are mostly used to make traps, or for those who haven't reached the astral plane or have weak cultivations, it can be used to make a spell without a chant which makes most people refer to them as arrays.
Think of it as the written version of a chant if you'd like. However, there are a small number of well sought out mages out there who use battle runes as a way to make enormous spells that either expanded throughout an entire city or nation or had the power to wipe a city or nation out." She explained and stopped speaking for a while, trying to decipher my expression as I quickly thought of many ways this might have been used.