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Soon Byrne and his companions learned that the knight was actually the Deputy Sheriff responsible for maintaining public order in the city.
At the same time, they also discovered something: the historical rifts were ultimately not the real world. Except for the Deputy Sheriff, no one else would communicate with them, and all were like phantasmal existences that were sometimes real, sometimes illusory, and as unfixed as ghosts.
After learning that Byrne and others were physicians living in seclusion nearby, the Deputy Sheriff was still filled with caution and defense, even going so far as to say he wanted to bring in a prophecy-type spellcaster to test whether they had any hostility.
The spellcaster appeared out of nowhere and then cast a prophecy-type spell on the three of them.
The answer, of course, was that there was no hostility.
All three saw the prophecy-type spellcaster subsequently dissipate and vanish, as if he had never existed.