User blog comment:Auric Drake/Discussion of Monster Girl Quest power levels/@comment-32013951-20180712162926/@comment-32013951-20180715204504

Again, that's sort of just an assumption. One should always assume the authors intend for certain things to happen in the fictional works they write, unless there's a statement or context or something stating/implying otherwise. If I use this kind of logic on your subsequent point, for example, I can simply say that TTR didn't want to make destroyed versions of 4 maps because it would needlessly eliminate 4 sources of decent items and story-important areas, as well as slow the overall development of the game.

Though yeah, I do think that most monsters are small building level-ish. However, Apoptoses don't necessarily fall into "most monsters," and the fact that Luka + other main characters have many instances where they fight them, it only makes sense to consider those feats consistent and thus scale them to Apoptoses.