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.

[Designation: Tunnel-Crowned Deathspine Centipede]


[Classification: Subterranean Predator]


[You have slain a Behemorph within a corrupted Genesis Field!]


>Rootlash Dominion reacts to predatory neural patterns.


>Passive enhancement to subterranean Rootlash binding speed.


[Verdant Tyranny has recorded this prey.]


[Updated Lore Node: "Tunnel-Crowned Deathspine Centipede" added to Codex.]


The corpse of the mutated centipede still steamed.


Clayton stood above it, unmoving. Not out of fear, not even surprise, but disorientation.


'Behemorph? Is that what they're called?'


He stood still, disoriented by everything, including how a body as small as his was able to overpower and murder a centipede as big as a literal van!


Chapter 37 - The seed and the soul