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 the Forgotten Atlanta Expanse's ruins, Shedskin's fungal chitin plates shimmering with adaptive camouflage, thorned vines coiling like a ranger's cloak.

His Regalia of the Verdant Warden hummed in spear form, Heartseed Core steady at 12 Genesis Embers, Aspect Strain moderate.

His Architect rank Aspect, divine-like with a 6,000 Embers cap, pulsed through Shedskin's enhancements; 80% physical resistance, and 70% mind/soul resistance, stealth affinity sharpening his hunt.

His Aphid Network; 26 minions, including the Spore Plague Lord (Luminous Seed), Ashbloom Stalker (Luminous Seed), Spore Husk (Luminous Seed), and 23 Initiate Ember (Thorn Strays, Sporelings, Thorn Hounds, Howl Shriekers, Ash Sprites, Spore Drifter) all trailed, cloaked by Veil of Verdant Shroud, 60 kilometers east of his Rootsite.

Greed's gambit