'S-Shit' They both thought at the same time.

But as they were ready to skedaddle away out of there at full speed, seeing that the old man lying there peacefully was about to wake up, as he unconsciously touched his face with his right hand, and then all of sudden he opened his mouth once again and started snoring-

"Zzzzzzzz!"

The two then immediately proceeded to enter the room and quickly inspected it, and not even a minute had passed, both of them had found the key hidden inside one of the secret compartments of the drawers in the room.

How were they able to find it easily? It's simple, it's because when Philip was rustling through one of the drawers, he was able to detect an unusual faint clanging of metals, and that's how he was able to conclude that there was in fact a hidden compartment, which probably contained more other secrets-

But they were in a hurry, so to even bother to check those other secrets out is just out of the question, thus no words need be spoken between Philip and Ada as they both made the rational decision of just trying to finish what they came here for-

Swish! Swish!

Now that the key was in the hands of Philip, that just leaves the task of finding where the entrance of the basement is located-

In a single glance as the two looked around the room, there was nothing unusual about the floor, so they searched around more thoroughly, however they were able to find nothing. But that was until when they checked under the bed and felt the differences in the surface of the floor, which turned from a rough surface to then instantly a smooth surface, furthermore Philip sensed that this part of the floor was more humid than the other.

So, with that information in mind, Philip quietly and carefully tapped every inch of where he felt that raspy sensation until he was able to make out a square, and in the process finding out where the hole is, after which he very smoothly inserted the key-

Click! Clack!

But then all of sudden the wooden trapdoor moved ever so slightly downwards-

Swoo-

However, this was obviously to be expected, so Ada's hands were already prepared to stop trapdoors movement thereby preventing it from making a lot of noise, on the other hand, Philip immediately hid the key in his pocket to free his preoccupied hands which allowed him to help Ada in stabilizing entrance...

And after they paused to gather themselves, Philip held it first to let Ada enter since he was the stronger of the two, and then Ada, from the inside, held it to then let Philip pass through without a noise. Also, I would like to remind our dear readers that this was all happening the Village Chief were sleeping in the bed above them.

...

Inside, upon seeing that the mechanism also had a keyhole from there, they two tactfully closed up the trapdoor, so that in case the village chief wakes up, it will not be directly obvious to him that something was wrong.

Then as the darkness enveloped them; to fight back against it, Ada conjured and maintained a fire spell to light up at least the radius around them to see where they were going-

Whoosh-Sizzle! Sizzle!

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As the two then walked forward, they were surprised to see that the interior was actually cleaner than they originally assumed, the books and certain classified documents were neatly sorted through, without a speck of dust in them, which could most likely mean that the chief have been maintaining them well over the years.

But they didn't have time to look through them, so instead their attention was focused on the pristine glass jar that was a bit moisty on the outside,

"Philip-that must be it" As Ada looked to Philip with excitement, while being as tact as possible.

Philip then smiled back at her and said with enthusiasm while also retaining his tact "You're right that must be it."

And without confirming it, they approached it closer to inspect it further, and just from a glance, they could already figure out and make the assumption that the jar had a mechanism that seemed to function to preserve something inside it.

Then as they grabbed the jar carefully with both their hands, they saw that there were freshly marked creases on the side of its lid, meaning that it has been recently opened and that it was meant to be opened, because they also saw a similar bottle right next to it. But they weren't able to read the warning that was supposed to be beside it as the old village chief, which was probably already senile or if not, probably about to reach that point forgot to place it there, which for those who are curious says: "Don't forget to apply three times a day"

So, based off of the information available the two assumed that they could touch whatever was inside, as they then quickly wiped off the moist outside-

Wipe-Wipe!

Wipe-Wipe!

Then upon removing all the moist, what the jar revealed was a blood red six leafed clover, which was wrapped around with intricate webs of thin sheets of silver ropes to make it wearable as a necklace. The combination of the two, made it look like an ominous mystical artifact that held dark secrets, as if it was cursed by a powerful entity.

However, the two were fearlessly curious, so Ada who was holding the jar opened it and was the first one to touch it-

Rustle!

But the moment her skin came into contact with the leaf, it rapidly withered-

"H-Hey what do we do now?" Ada looked at Philip with fear in her eyes, as if she knew that it was that moment that she knew she fucked up-

"D-Don't ask me that, I don't know!" Philip also panicked along with her, but inside him there was this lingering feeling, an instinct as if there was something he could do.

So, Philip asked Ada if he could hold it too "Hey give it to me"

"W-What are you planning to do with it?" As Ada with her hands shaking handed over the amulet to Philip.

"Shhh! Just don't ask questions" As Philip took it from her hands.

Philip then gently pressed around the withered clover, and he felt a connection between it and his mana, so he poured his mana into it...

But the plant wasn't just satisfied with his mana, so after him pouring in more, the clover squeezed out tiny red liquids from its body.

The red liquids then became tentacle like hands, it gave Philip a weird feeling because it was scary but at the same time cute because of its size. But that cute thought was quickly eradicated when it sliced a tiny flab of Philip's skin and absorbed a single drop of blood from the wound it made-

Drip!

The plant then reacted to Philip's blood, it was like a paper that was crumpled and was being put back to its original form, it slowly rejuvenated and was brought back from verge of death-

Crumple! Crackle!

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Afterwards, after some time had passed, the leaf finished its resurrection and looked like as if it was good as new.

Both of them then quickly put back everything that they touched back to where it was placed, and just sneakily went outside of the house to run as fast as they could, the adrenaline was still circling through their veins, as they burst out laughing at what they both just did-

"HAHAHAHAHAHA"

"HAHAHAHAHAHA"

However, even if they revived the six leafed clover, it was still a question on whether they actually restored the clover back to its original form, as they detected the loud stomping rushing towards them from the south side forest of the village, at least from their honed senses-

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

Both of them stopped laughing as they immediately went quiet, they then had an expression that could be summed up with two words "OH SHIT!"

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