Bai Huo was right. In the eyes of Demon Hunters, this wraith sealed away in the far north of Siberia was safe and harmless. Although a human family had suffered terribly under the wraith's attacks, the Demon Hunters saw no reason to pity those who had summoned an evil spirit and brought disaster upon themselves—in fact, they felt no one deserved pity. They had many reasons for waging war against nonhumans, but compassion for ordinary humans was not among them.
Their standard for judging whether a nonhuman was harmful was whether it had the potential to grow and develop, and whether it posed a threat to the Demon Hunter organization itself. Beyond that, they rarely spared any attention.
That was why they seldom went looking for trouble with wraiths—at least, not of their own accord. Wraiths mostly appeared in places untouched by human presence. They had no reason, did not expand their territory, and did not build up forces. They were strange entities somewhere between living creatures and natural phenomena, not even necessarily something to regard as an "enemy." So even though the humans entangled with them generally lived worse than death, the Demon Hunters did not care much about the matter.
Three hundred years ago, the Andre family had provoked this terrifying spiritual creature. Somehow, they had barely managed to bind the wraith deep beneath Andre Castle. Afterward, the family's ancestors began seeking help from the dark world. They searched for people who understood witchcraft, approached the Church, and even sought aid from some nonhumans. Their activities naturally drew the attention of the Demon Hunters, but the Demon Hunters could not even be bothered to show themselves and ask about it.
The only thing that interested the Demon Hunters about the wraith here was the fact that it had