Lord of Eternal Bloom & Decay
For an entire year, Scott was addicted to playing Sporos, a survival game he found online.
He was addicted to the brutal, open-world simulation known for its 99.9% mortality rate, a digital hellscape defined by the "Blooming Decay Event" that swallowed humanity twenty millennia ago.
He died thousands of times to the acid-drenched fangs of Spore Beasts and the lung-collapsing rot of cyclonic spore storms.
Pushed to the brink of frustration by the game's impossibility, Scott spent weeks coding a balancing script—a "Shelter Core" cheat designed to defy the game’s cruel fate.
However, things took another extreme turn as Scott woke up trapped in the body of a "Critically Weakened" Shelter Lord on Sporos, with a remaining lifespan of only 17 years.
He is now a mutated survivor struggling to breathe in a world where the atmosphere is thick with corrosive pollen and the ground is buried beneath miles of sentient, hungry mycelial mats.
However, the code came with him. Floating before his eyes is the interface that will change the fate of this rotting world.
While the horrors of Sporos—the flesh-eating Biolilies and the hallucinations of the Feral Echo, Scott begins his grind.
He possesses the unique ability to inject fixed experience points into his very DNA, forcing evolution where nature intended decay.
[ First Ordered Foundation Gene: Lvl 0 Mycelial Heart]
[ Effect (Lvl 0): Improves Hosts cultivation of Life energy by 0.05 per day. Life energy storage and recovery rate +20%. One fixed point of upgrade experience is gained daily, with additional, random experience points earned through continuous exercise.]
[ Upgrade Path: Each level will significantly increase the efficiency and speed of Life Energy absorption by an additional 50% each level by expanding the body's capacity for storing Life Energy, directly improving recovery rate and stamina.]
[ Upgrading First Ordered Foundation Gene: Mycelial Heart from Lvl 0 to Lvl 1... ]
[ Upgrading First Ordered Foundation Gene: Mycelial Heart from Lvl 1 to Lvl 2... ]
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[ First Ordered Foundation Gene: Lvl 5 Mycelial Heart]
[ Effect (Lvl 5): Improves Host's cultivation of Life energy by 0.51 per day. Life energy storage and recovery rate +202% and gains 10 fixed points of upgrade experience daily, with additional, random experience points earned through continuous exercise. ]
[ Minor Energy Siphon (Unlocked at Lvl 5): Allows the user to actively draw a small amount of life energy from direct contact with living flora (plants, fungi) to accelerate personal stamina recovery outside of combat. ]
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[ First Ordered Foundation Gene: Lvl 0 Bull's Frame]
[ Effect (Lvl 0): Physical attributes +100%, One fixed point of upgrade experience is gained daily, with additional, random experience points earned through continuous exercise. ]
[ Upgrade Path: Each level will directly repair and enhance the user's physical body by an additional 50% each level by restoring bone density, rebuild atrophied muscle, and increase overall physical strength, durability, and resilience.]
[ Upgrading First Ordered Foundation Gene: Bull's Frame from Lvl 0 to Lvl 1... ]
[ Upgrading First Ordered Foundation Gene: Bull's Frame from Lvl 1 to Lvl 2... ]
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[ First Ordered Foundation Gene: Lvl 5 Bull's Frame ]
[ Effect (Lvl 5): Physical attributes +1,012%, 10 fixed points of upgrade experience is gained daily, with additional, random experience points earned through continuous exercise. ]
[ Impact Bracing (Unlocked at Lvl 5): The user's body will instinctively tense and redistribute kinetic force upon detecting an imminent heavy impact, significantly reducing damage and knockback from blunt force trauma. ]