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.

[I wrote this bonus chapter for GoodMornin2U2, you really made my day with that review. But I came back only to see a Dragon gift from Sauron_0405. Wow, I'm so grateful man. Thanks, this is for you too.]


The first wolf dropped with a loud sound.


Clayton's spear, now fully extended and wrapped in creeping thorns, burst through its charred underbelly. The creature didn't' even whimper. Just shuddered once, then collapsed into the cracked asphalt, its flesh sizzling with residual heat.


[Target Eliminated: Initiate Ember Forest Wolf]


The second and third wolves came at him together, one from a burned-out sedan, the other leaping across a ruined storefront.


They were larger than normal canines, far smaller than the van-sized centipede though. Their bodies were armored with ridged magma-scale and ember-spitting veins; each pawprint left a scorched crater in its wake.


Chapter 39 - {Bonus Chapter} Hunter in the ruined city [1]