You can do it, Wolca! Become Belgrieve, the Red Ogre! Well, you have the additional handicap of lacking an eye, but in manga that never comes with any problems with depth perception, maybe because mangas are by their nature always two-dimensional.
Getting distracted by random herbs and ore nodes is the most MMORPG behavior imaginable.
Seems like the assassins are former players as well ("The people of this world [...]")
So that's what the strange effect on volume 4's cover was. Then Stella will get a ghoul doppelganger as well.
First parasites, then ghouls. Both highly intelligent and physically vastly superior to humans, yet both existing in hiding. They should be the dominant lifeform on this planet.
So ghouls are a different concept from parasites. Didn't seem so at first.
The one here is doing a rather pitiful job posing as the original though (his totally changed behavior is either a glimpse at his real personality or part of his survival strategy by lessening the risk of betrayal, guess...
There were definitely choices made in the creation of this chapter, though I don't understand many of them.
"Hah, I've taken your family hostage!" She didn't, never even checked and that possible solution for there being no corpses falls apart.
"Do you know what happens when a vampire drains...