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.

Three days had passed since the Apostate raid, but the echoes of battle still lingered in the Rootsite.


The once-peaceful sanctuary now bore scars of molten claw strikes, collapsed walls, and charred ruins where Apostates had struck hardest.


Despite the damage, the enclave thrummed with renewed life and purpose. Civilians moved with determined energy, repairing shattered biomass barricades, reinforcing spined towers, and expanding Verdant gardens to feed their growing numbers.


Clayton stood atop a living bastion wall, arms crossed as he surveyed the work below.


Every vine, every pulse of biomass answered to him now, reaching further than ever before. The Heartseed Core burned hot within his chest, its rhythm synced to hundreds of minds within his domain.


[Verdant Pulse Amplified: +15% Healing/ +20% Biomass Regen]


[Aphid Network Sync: 180/200 Behemorphs]


Chapter 120 - The Verdant Pact