What Do You Mean, the Art Styles Don't Match?!?

Forgot the beginning, forgot the middle, forgot the end! Anyway, what a pair of star-crossed lov— ahem. Anyway, that enormous "humanoid" creature was so distinctive that it was practically impossible not to recognize it at a glance!

From a distance, the few ruined buildings still standing in the flattened city district—or rather, the rubble—did not even reach the feet of that "colossal god"!

Its towering body had broken free of every restraint imposed by its external armor. Its beastlike form, mottled with purple, stood like a mountain upon the earth, yet sacred white light wreathed it. A lofty horn rose from its head, wings of light spread behind it, and two brilliant halos hovered at its back!

Only the blazing red light bursting from its eyes betrayed a true beast as it threw back its head and roared at the sky!

At that very moment.

With the Lance of Longinus in its left hand and the Spear of Cassius in its right, this monster—or god—wielded both sacred spears, forming a bulwark with their enormous blood-red lengths to meet the edge slashing resolutely down from the heavens!

No one could make out what was actually happening up there—not unless they wanted to go blind on the spot.

A single collision sent an immense, formless tremor through the distance. Even the foundations of the building beneath the spectators, already broken down to less than half its original height, shook violently. None of them could keep their footing. They clung desperately to whatever lay within reach, yet instinctively kept squinting toward the battle!

"Ascension! That white color means the EVA has begun its ascension! It has halos behind it! Its 'Fruit of Life and Fruit of Knowledge' have both been completed!"

Amid the chaos, Li Anshan even heard someone nearby screaming those words