Maki suddenly found it hard to breathe on the battlefield.
It was as though a tornado was forming in the vast underground space, its eye devouring all the air, leaving the oxygen so stagnant that breathing became difficult.
Another AT Field had been activated. A turbulent current of soul matter powerful enough to affect the entire space was churning, and a being was ascending.
The Power Angel was feeding!
At some point, the Power Angel had extended a mouthpart like an enormous flower, as large as its own body, and swallowed a Mass-Production Evangelion.
Two Mass-Production Evangelion corpses were missing from the battlefield-the first two that Unit-01 had defeated. Both were now inside the Power Angel's belly.
All the damage inflicted by the eight replica Spears of Longinus had healed, and further changes were taking place.
The flesh of the Power Angel's lower body began to writhe, instantly sprouting a humanlike torso and limbs, while the original Power Angel seemed to become this giant's head.
Power Angel: Human Form
It had not merely eaten two Mass-Production Evangelions. It had made everything they possessed, from their bodies to their S2 Engines, part of itself.
It was Adam's offspring, the strongest rejection-type Angel, forced to complete a crude ascension ritual here in Geo Front, the Underground City that held humanity's hopes.
"No way. An Angel preying on EVAs?" Ritsuko Akagi stared at the large screen in shock. "That's absurd!"
"Senpai!" Maya Ibuki called out. "Look! The target's identification signal has switched to that of a Mass-Production Evangelion."
"Then even if that thing enters Final Dogma, the Final Dogma Area won't self-destruct!" Misato Katsuragi said.
"If it defeats Unit-01, it'll be able to reach Lilith without anything stopping it."
The AT Field began to spread, but without its previous destructive force. It was