After engaging and defeating the apparition, Bayek meets Amunet’s contact Merti in Luxor for information. Moments later, he witnesses an apparition of Nefertiti attacking the people nearby. Arriving in the city, he is welcomed by a red-haired Egyptian, Sutekh. Four years after the foundation of the creed of the Hidden Ones, Bayek receives a letter of Amunet, asking him to investigate rumors about a relic in Thebes.