The first to discover that something was wrong were the great Otherworldly families on the Hellenic Peninsula. They successively noticed that the hunters carrying out missions all over the world had vanished. Soon afterward, investigators reported finding Demon Hunter strongholds that had been completely deserted. A few days later, sanctuaries in Northern Europe and North and South America sent back the same news: the Demon Hunters were gone.
In Europe, Asia, the Americas, even the sparsely inhabited Arctic Circle and the secretive hunting grounds of Antarctica, the Demon Hunters seemed to have withdrawn from their positions simultaneously, as though they had all received the same order. Because of their disadvantaged access to information, the Otherworldly families could not determine the direction of the Demon Hunters' retreat. By the time they realized what had happened, the hunters had already vanished, and they could only judge from the remaining traces that the mass relocation had been carried out in an orderly manner. So far, only a small Werewolf family in South America had reported encountering a Demon Hunter team in the midst of a hurried relocation. Those hunters had been in such a rush that, despite clearly detecting the Werewolves' presence, the two sides had not come into conflict.
All kinds of reports about the "disappearance of the hunters" appeared on the tables of Otherworldly family heads around the world within a few days. Whether they were traditional families living in isolation or sanctuaries banding together for warmth, they all received the information in turn. The great families sent out their most elite investigators to verify the reports, and without exception, those daredevils returned safely after venturing into areas controlled by the Demon Hunters. They found only traces of lingering magic and empty strongholds left behind after the personnel had been relocated.