"What's going on with these things?" A severely injured Proxy Agent was full of frustration. After encountering the Scarlet Shadows, they all felt something was off and fought somewhat conservatively at first.
But once the real battle started, they realized that their initial evaluation was either an overestimation or an underestimation. The combat power displayed by these monsters was just outrageous.
They were more formidable than any monsters previously encountered, and these Scarlet Shadows demonstrated an extremely formidable combat awareness.
They are human-form monsters whose defense skills are extremely strong due to the overlapping of parallel entities and bizarre attack patterns, leaving even their strongest defender heavily injured in a direct encounter.
One can imagine, if it weren't the most defensively powerful Proxy Agent who probed them initially, but another Proxy Agent taking action, they might have been killed in a single blow.
