Lord_Profane

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.

Echoterra: Rise of the Verdant King

Clayton stalked through the Forgotten Atlanta Expanse, Regalia of the Verdant Warden in spear form, its Mycoglyph gauntlet pulsing with Earthcore Nexus's rhythm.

His humanoid form, fully recovered, moved with predatory grace, plasma burns and psychic scars gone, Heartseed Core steady at 70% Genesis Threshold.

Behind him, his 30 Initiate Ember Behemorph minions fanned out via Aphid Network; 12 Thorn Hounds snarling, 8 Howl Shriekers slinking, 7 Ash Sprites flickering, 5 Spore Drifters cloaked in mist.

He wasn't just sending them to hunt unsubordinated Behemorphs this time.

This time, he'd lead, his Verdant Tyranny demanding efficiency to grow his dominion.

He didn't want to admit it, but he was under pressure.

Lure of the beast