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 pressed on, Shedskin's stealth cloaking his hunt, Aphid Network growing; 3 new minions, Genesis Embers ticking up.

Clayton's Aspect was truly one of a kind.

He took a desperate gamble to hunt amid the chaos, amid the Apocalypse in the Forgotten Atlanta Expanse, but due to the divine nature of his Aspect, he was getting more than thrice the benefits that a normal Awakened should have gained.

Not only was he growing stronger by absolving more Genesis Embers through kills, raising his counter 1 Embers at a time, but he was also growing his army.

After all, his Architect rank Aspect gave him the ability to have his own army through his Aphid Network, almost like a taming Aspect.

'What's life without taking risks?' Clayton thought as he felt himself drowning deeper in the murderous frenzy of risking his life for gains.

The hunter's gamble [2]