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

A day ago, Clayton dropped the bombshell.

The Scorchpaths Outskirts loomed; a volcanic wasteland of ash dunes and glowing Scorchshrines, once the New Arizona District.

Of course, the team didn't know that the Scorchpaths Outskirts was once the New Arizona District till Clayton told them.

And now, Clayton led the team through cracked highways, Shedskin cloaking his Verdant Lord aura as tattered rags, Regalia of the Verdant Warden in spear form, Thornshade Dagger humming at his hip.

His Architect Aspect thrummed, restrained to blend with the team.

Their Mycoglyph-etched pagers pulsed steadily, the Earthcore Nexus's hum low but ominous.

The Aphid Network, just 36 minions now, hunted minimally, Spore Crown securing a small Embers gain.

Echoes of ash