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.

[Congratulations for completing the core objective of Trial III]


[Before Ascension, you have received a final task.]


>The portal back to Earth is located at the heart of the temple of the God of Memories (Echoes). Only after you pass through the Trial will you get full access to your Verdant Warden Rank Ascension.


>The war was fought between followers of Verdant God and the God of Mechanics, but the battlefield was in Memories God territory.


[Mission Objective: Find the battlefield, enter, locate the portal, and go home.]


[WARNING: The battlefield ruin is teeming with exceedingly powerful Behemorphs ranging from Verdant Warden Rank to Prime Synchron Rank. The weakest Behemorph there is a Verdant Warden.]


The words burned in the air, carved in emerald and scarlet across the empty chamber.


Chapter 169 - The system's cruelty