"Why were you the one that could pass it down?"
Kroya simply couldn't figure it out. He had thought these inscriptions couldn't be inherited-that only the individual plant he inscribed would have them.
Yet here was one that could pass its inscription down.
"Could it be because the inscription went unusually smoothly?"
Recalling what had happened during the inscription, its astral spirit body had seemed eager to accept the magical inscription. Everything had gone so smoothly that it was almost as though... it had possessed it all along.
"How strange."
He studied it for a while, examining the Big-Mouthed Demon Flower whose astral spirit body he had inscribed from top to bottom, but found nothing.
The inscriptions representing the magic existed within its astral spirit body, with no obvious differences from the other inscriptions, yet they looked remarkably harmonious.
"Odd."
While Kroya was pondering this, the Big-Mouthed Demon Flower had already begun trying to use its elementalization ability.
A gleam of magical light flowed across its surface. Its color gradually faded, and it became somewhat insubstantial and transparent.
A moment later, it successfully completed the elemental transformation. The entire flower had become insubstantial and transparent.
It was unbelievably fast, as though it had known how to do this all along.
"Hmm?"
Kroya suddenly noticed a slight change in its name. After elementalizing, it was no longer [Big-Mouthed Demon Flower], but... [Elemental Big-Mouthed Demon Flower · Atavistic Return].
"An atavistic return, huh."
"Could it have originally possessed this elemental transformation ability, only to degenerate into its current form after losing it?
"In other words, if I restore that ability, it can regain its original form?"
He immediately recalled how the Pure White Sea Spirit Coconut had evolved into a magic plant. Back then, its astral spirit body had resembled an extinguished