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 guttural roar shook the ravine, making all the hair on Clayton's green skin rise and stand on their end.


A Luminous Seed Behemorph (12-meter, thorned exoskeleton, with a void-like aura) burst from the ravine, its presence snuffing flames and spores, including Clayton's roots, Nexus pulsing chaotically.


The moment his roots froze and he lost control over them, Clayton's eyes widened as he stared at the gigantic Behemorph even as one thought rang in his head.


But then, realization finally settled in…


Right at that moment, the system lit up with a notification, one of the most ominous-looking ones that Clayton had ever received since Echoterra.


The text was written in red font color.


[You have encountered an extremely rare Behemorph!]


[You have encountered a Luminous Seed Null Crown Behemorph!]


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