When the world ended, Clayton Hunt was just another street survivor scavenging for scraps, fighting for breath in a crumbling society on the edge of ruin.

Then the sky cracked open, and the Genesis Protocols began.

Dragged into Echoterra, a nightmarish trial world where survival rewrites your very soul, Clayton awakens. Not as a man, but as a seed… a goddamn seed!

Stripped of his body, his memories locked behind suffocating layers, he must claw his way upward from the dirt, evolving into something far beyond human.

The first trial is brutal and simple. 

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[Expand your territory to 100 square meters or die!]
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Facing monstrous rivals, parasitic invaders, and the harsh reality of nature’s cruelty, Clayton battles not only to grow but to dominate; harnessing a feral, plantlike instinct he never knew lurked inside him.

Along the way, fragments of his past leak through, reminding him who he was… and hinting at the terrifying power he might yet awaken.

But survival isn’t enough. In a world where strength writes the law and weakness spells extinction, Clayton won’t just grow. He’ll thrive. 

And when he finally returns to the real world, it won’t be as a scavenger.

It will be as a conqueror.

The Mycoglyph-powered truck screeched to a halt, its roar drowned by the cacophony of war.


Not just Clayton. As soon as the Mycoglyph-powered military truck screeched to a halt, its inhabitants jumped out of it, dividing into two teams that charged in different directions.


Whereas Clayton, Torren, and Veyra let loose immediately, unleashing the full power of their Aspects on any hostile force in front of them, the trio of Kaelin, Soren, and Lorn did something else.


Instead of attacking, they blended into the chaos, slipping through.


The Rootsite, Clayton's fungal fortress of pulsing vines and Mycoglyph-etched spires stood battered, its core flickering under the Earthcore Nexus's oppressive hum.


Chapter 106 - Battle for Atlanta [1]