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When Tiamat attempted to snipe Ritsuka with a long range attack, Gilgamesh
blocked it and died to save Ritsuka. Kingu then sacrifices himself to restrain
Tiamat with the Chain of Heaven long enough for Ereshkigal to finish moving
the Underworld under Tiamat. Ishtar blasts a hole underneath Tiamat, causing
her to fall into the Underworld. Later, when Tiamat summons high class Lahmu
to fight Ritsuka and his servants while she climbs out of the underworld,
Gilgamesh arrives in his servant form to support Ritsuka's team against Tiamat
and the Lahmu and uses Enuma Elish later to finish off Tiamat's physical form
after Ritsuka persuaded her to give up her Nega-Genesis field to recreate the
universe. How was Gilgamesh summoned? I know the real Merlin arrived from
Avalon and summoned the Grand Assassin Hassan, but there was no mention of him
summoning Gilgamesh in his Archer form as well.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wBmNx.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wBmNx.jpg)


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How is Gilgamesh' summoned at the final battle against Tiamat in the Underworld in Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia?


I'll use the F/GO game (English version) for the basis of my answer. I use a
somewhat humorous name in-game, so try not to mind that too much. There are
definitely differences with the animation (there's no persuading anything
about a nega-genesis whatsit), so it's possible there are differences between
them regarding how any given character arrives on a given scene. But supposing
we put that aside...The short of the answer is: we don't know how Gilgamesh
himself arrived there in Archer form. The longer answer is...

First, (real) Merlin is not the one who summons First Hassan. While Merlin
describes First Hassan as being an Ace he's kept hidden up his sleeve, he
denies being the one to actually summon him. Nor was he summoned by Gilgamesh
or a (greater) grail. First Hassan is in fact summoned by the protagonist,
albeit without his knowing it.

[![Real Merlin rhetorically asks who summoned First
Hassan](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kr5Hh.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kr5Hh.jpg)
[![It was the PC all
along](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sr9Vs.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sr9Vs.jpg)
As I suggested in my comment, this kind of implies that First Hassan kind of
summoned himself there so he could fight a Beast, as is the point and calling
of a Grand Servant, and to be a Servant to the protagonist.

The real Merlin has arrived by typical Merlin rules-lawyering shenanigans.
[![Merlin abuses another
loophole](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2gPkd.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2gPkd.jpg)

Unfortunately, Gilgamesh is even less forthcoming with how he managed to
arrive as an Archer class Servant. [![Gilgamesh simply says that breaking
rules is easy for a
King](https://i.stack.imgur.com/55JxS.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/55JxS.png)
When Mash asks/implies that he survived to this point after all, he responds:
[![Sort of.  There's room for compromise in the
Underworld.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/57POr.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/57POr.png)
And that's all we hear on the matter. So he broke and bent the rules, using
the nature and mechanics of the (Babylonian) Underworld to his advantage. He
does seem to have full memory of his association with the protagonist and
Mash. Nevertheless, it's unclear what has been accomplished here. He calls
himself a Servant, and I think we can trust him on that, so we can rule out
that he's simply the human Gilgamesh the story had featured thus far donning a
new role. Perhaps he is a Demi-Servant or Pseudo-Servant, using his own body
and/or spirit as the base? Or, heck, maybe somewhere in that vault he's got a
"turn a human/spirit into a Servant" potion or another, and it really is the
human (caster) Gilgamesh (or at least his spirit). It's impossible to say from
what we're provided, unfortunately, beyond that it relies in part on some sort
of shenanigans involving the rules and nature of the Underworld, and that he
is in fact a Servant of some sort.


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