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.

[Genesis Protocol – Trial III Initiated]


["Welcome, challengers. The roots of the past await."]


The message burned across Clayton's vision.


Everything was dark, abyss level of dark, almost like being stuck inside a nightmare with nowhere to escape. It was so still, and wet.


But then… awareness came, and with it came light.


It was almost like that famous quote of the bible: the world was covered in unending darkness, until light showed, and with it came life.


He woke up to pressure on every side, and he felt it immediately; no limb, no breath, and no voice.


Only a beat in the still darkness of this world.


Soil hugged him like a fist, encapsulating him in its dark embrace. Water licked his shell. Heat, faint and far, pressed from above, bringing back memories that were hidden at the very deepest depths of his mind.


Chapter 155 - Green dawn [1]