I feel yeah since I also read up to chapter 200 of the wn, but yeah, things sort of changed in the light novel. This is the end of volume 4, I ended up rereading the entire series to fill in the gaps between my memory, what was changed, and added.
There's a lot of these nowadays, to be honest, it's starting to be a turn off to read. I don't really have prejudice against body count as long as it's not in the triple digits, but this starting to feel like an agenda that's being pushed.