Chapter 288

• What was I? According to Willow, I was nothing less than the last witch of ancestral lineage. There were two types of witches: hereditary and ancestral. Hereditary witches inherited their mother’s nature in a fixed and continuous manner. A fire witch would always give birth to another fire witch, a water witch to a baby with water powers, and so on. Ancestral witches, on the other hand, were capable of obtaining any type of origin through sowing and cultivation, which occurred over generations.
• That was why my ancestors were not witches. They carried the seed, cultivated it, and passed it on. Generations without powers were essential for the seed to grow, but it would only blossom and bear fruit in the hands of those who fertilized it enough to make it bear fruit. The fertilizer was called devotion, and it was necessary to collect a lot of this type of energy for the seed to grow and blossom.
• There was more than one reason why Lohan had never considered that I could really be a witch. The first was that the ancestral witches had been theoretically extinct since the last great war, which occurred almost 13,000 years ago. The war was only the end of the extermination of the ancient witches, which had begun long before. Feared for their powers, the seeds of the ancient witches were destroyed even in the sowing phase, as generations without magical gifts were the most vulnerable.