Mud's Mission

What happens when somebody with no common sense is given a goal to "protect this chair"? Right, they conquer the universe.

What happens when somebody is told to "make paperclips"? Right, they conquer the universe.

Any open-ended goal ends in total conquest of anything within their reach.

If it surprises you, I recommend to look at the topic called Instrumental Convergence. Mud's Mission gives a rough example of how a similar scenario could play out. The story is currently in its starting phase, but it already shows the differences between how people think and how a machine could think.

Even though it's just my guess, Mud's Mission has an amazing agenda - to show what an unaligned artificial intelligence could do. If you don't know about this theme, you will get a fun example of why unaligned AI is bad. If you've read about this theme, you will be laughing like crazy from references.

Up to Chapter 54, all the errors that I've noticed were fixed. You'll see close to no grammatical errors in this book.

Overall, I recommend this book to everyone, it is interesting.

Lil Golem trying his best to follow his Masters last Orders. To keep the hearth clean and kill pests.

Slight Chance he will have to bring the entire World under his Control to fulfill his task to the best of his capabilities.
Golem things,  you know. 

:D 

So i read 50 chapters and i believe i can now review this story.

It's a story that may not be for everyone. There's maybe for some a bit of disturbing actions and theme (torture-mind control ect)

But if you are ok with a bit of torture and inhumane treatment, then this story is for you. 

Characters

The protagonist is inhuman, you don't feel he's human, his way of thinking is just alien. He is driven, intelligent, ignorant at first but oh god is he efficient. This one goal and he will do it. He does have his limits as a golem but well read it and you'll see. 

The inhuman writing is on par with super minion.

The story is okish, there's better plots, but really we are here for the characters and the world. And the story do git the characters and that's all that really matters. 

The world is actually my favorite thing about this story, there's a deep lore being built, and i highly appreciated. 

There's a few grammar mistakes, but the syntaxes is good and the speed of release is well fast, too fast. 

I hope the author will keeo sane and not burnout. 

Have you read "Everybody Loves Large Chests"? Well, there's no need for you to read this review, because it's very similar. 

The style's playful, quite easy and enjoyable to read. There is no unnecessary flowery language or long descriptions. Short and sweet. The combat's decent too.

The story, as of yet, hasn't revealed itself. It is currently a slice of life with some power ups and a few tidbits here and there.

The grammar's close to perfect. There are negligible errors here and there and even a pedant won't be bothered.

The characters are well executed archetypes. The demon girl is suitably demonic and the MC is suitably artifical. 

This is a very good story. It'll deserve a 5 star once the characters have come into their own and the story has begun.

The main character is a golem with a way of thinking that feels alien. He isn't just a human in a golem body or a golem that thinks and acts like a human which is definitely one of the better aspects of the story.

• The story so far has been following the MC as he tries to power level which has been interesting to watch.
• The leveling system is fun with skill points that can be spent on a large library of skills rather than just getting something predetermined at each level.
• There hasn't been any weird sex scenes or anything which is a plus.
• The grammar has been great with only minor problems like spacing.

I look forward to reading more.

Very well written story and while the premise is rather simple it doesn't detract from the entertaining and interesting possibilities.

It's an OK alternative version of Everybody Loves Large Chests, and that's fine.

The early chapters are better and more focused than later ones. The introduction of the summoned demon does not do the story any favors though. Now instead of a naive golum trying to make its way in the world, there's this being under contract to help it. How convenient. (And also exactly what ELLC did)

The MC shouldn't be a monster. Well, it IS a monster, but it shouldn't be evil. It _should_ be doing its best to follow incomplete instructions in an AI-taken-to-extremes way.

Instead, lately we have the MC repeatedly considering eliminating one of its human companions because she "thinks illogically". What. This makes no sense, as it goes against two of its primary directives, those being "Don't kill humans" and "Protect my stuff". The MC was already working on getting around "Don't kill humans" which made a little sense at the time, because killing humans would give it experience points, which would make it stronger, which would allow it to follow orders better. But killing a human because they were annoying or illogical.... is illogical. And annoying. It doesn't fit the existing premise. And discarding a resource, such as a subordinate human, just directly goes against its directive to protecting the Master's stuff. Why weaken the team? That won't help it achieve its goals.

Limitations are interesting. Brandon Sanderson has many lectures about this exact thing. And the initial limitations made for an interesting premise for this story. Unfortunately, the author seems determined to get rid of the interesting limitations as soon as possible.

It's still an OK story for now though.

Grammar mistakes are abundant, and despite them being pointed out in the comments by multiple people, the author has explicitly stated (on Discord) that they don't bother with all the comments here. The author is not active with the audience on RR.

Splendid story so far. A true nonhuman MC with a variety of fun characters. Worth a read for sure!

A surprisingly captivating balance between a golem following its central commands and the humans (and nonhumans) who unknowingly hinder its tasks. Clear inspiration is taken from AI sci-fi and concepts such as Asimov's Three Laws of robotics are effectively applied to a magical setting. The restrictions placed on Mud to follow non-conflicting orders render every conversation a source of tension and comedy as even innocuous statements may assign new tasks or restrictions on the single-minded golem.

Definitely a story to watch. There were very few grammatical issues, the side characters are all highly distinct, the golem’s perspective is inhuman but still communicated convincingly, and the difficulty of the golem’s simple goals makes the plot riveting.

Any fans of Super Minion or ELLC will most likely enjoy this story as well, though be warned of similar levels of inhuman violence on humans and depictions of mind control.