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.

A coolness rose from below, a wetness that bloomed through dust and stone. The taproot widened, hollowed, and flowered into a mouth.


Water lifted, filtered through living tissue, and spilled into a basin of bark like a lung exhaling.


A cheer caught and swelled along the street.


Lorn sagged back with a tired smile on her face while Elder Siah laughed; a bright, surprised sound that made Clayton's chest loosen in a way he didn't have words for.


Later, the Lure Thickets went up by night: black-spire growths bristling with thorn glass, their inner sacs swelling with pheromone mist.


Chapter 127 - Server squads