Sherlock Holmes is not a warp god.

This bird wouldn't normally bring in foreign birds like sparrows or swallows, but the things in the house now surprised Floren.

"Did you dig all of these out of the manor?"

The appraisal function scanned this pile of old objects still covered in dirt. They were either alchemical artifacts or had some connection to the mystical side.

Some of them are printed with Sherlock Holmes' family crest, which is exactly the same as the pattern on Fren's tie clip.

There are even older items, likely belonging to previous generations of the family that owned the manor.

Not long after Fren was adopted, the family moved to the city center. Later, when Fren enrolled in Eden Academy, he returned home even less often.

Only now that I've graduated can I live permanently in the manor.

Fren had no idea that so many things were buried in this manor. He usually just took a stroll and then went for a bath by the lake.

Picking up a pipe, Fren examined it closely.

This pipe was crafted by an ancestor of the Holmes family who held the extraordinary profession of blacksmithing. Only members of the Holmes family can use it. It likes to use various objects as "tobacco," and the smoke it exhales has different effects depending on the type of tobacco used.

As a pipe, it wants coffee beans today.

This is the most valuable item identified, containing extraordinary abilities that Furen is unaware of, and also bearing the blessings of the god of fate and the musician.

Fren's intuition told him that, regardless of the cost he would pay if he pushed the pipe to its limits, the manor would definitely need to be renovated.

After the bird repeated itself, Fren was certain that it had been dug out from underground.

There was no seal; it was simply buried under a stone slab, which was very careless.

Perhaps the ancestors who buried this mysterious item assumed that the person who discovered the pipe must be from the Holmes family, and naturally wouldn't prepare any barriers for their descendants.

Fren had little expectation of being able to use the pipe. He was named Holmes, but objectively speaking, he did not have the blood of the Holmes family flowing through his veins.

As everyone knows, the Sherlock Holmes skin must have a pipe, a sword cane, and a deerstalker hat; that's what makes it a classic.

Fren knew Sherlock smoked, so his first thought upon seeing the pipe was to give it to Sherlock.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories, Sherlock is always in grave danger. Now, in a real supernatural world, even if Sherlock is the protagonist, Fren worries that Sherlock will get him killed.

As he twirled the pipe in his hand, a phantom snake appeared in Fren's vision and bit his finger.

In a short while, Fren realized that he could use the pipe.

The Serpent of Fate connected with the future, confirming that Fren belonged to the Holmes family.

Fren was somewhat surprised, but now that it was in his hands, he would definitely try out the pipe's capabilities.

"You three, clean the hallway."

Before going to find the coffee beans, Fren pointed to the remaining pile of things on the ground and the dirt all over the place, and said to the bird and two dogs, "If it's still this dirty when I go downstairs, I'll use you as brooms and rags."

Leaving the grumbling parrot behind, Fren washed the dirt off his pipe and found the coffee beans in the reception room.

Fren wasn't a big coffee fan, but there were many kinds of coffee beans, so he took one of each kind, crushed them into coarse pieces, and stuffed them in.

After lighting it, Furen took a puff.

He doesn't usually smoke, but he knows that using coffee beans as tobacco is probably not a very healthy thing to do.

The smoke couldn't harm his enhanced lungs, but Fren could clearly feel some pain.

This pain enters from the lungs, travels through the blood vessels, and spreads to every corner of the body, causing the gentle blessing of Fron's loving father to stir slightly.

Self-healing experience +1

Cell manipulation experience +1

After taking a breath, Furen's two innate flesh-based abilities were enhanced.

It was then that Fren realized just how remarkable this pipe was.

Furen was no longer illiterate in the mystical world; he knew that improving innate abilities was much more difficult than developing acquired ones.

With his Heavenly Eye and the ability to eliminate all defilements, Furen gains experience points every time he uses his power. Once he has accumulated enough experience points, his power will naturally advance to the next level.

Under normal use, it will take less than a year for [Flesh Manipulation lv3] to be upgraded to lv4.

For ordinary people, this kind of progress is extremely terrifying.

However, after taking a puff of smoke, both of his innate abilities naturally gained a little more experience.

This is a "divine tool" to aid in cultivation, and it only has the ability of coffee beans and tobacco.

That unknown blacksmith, Sherlock Holmes, left behind something truly remarkable.

Fren plans to let everyone try it at the next family gathering. He'll also let everyone pick through the remaining pile of "unearthed artifacts."

This parrot can accurately sense extraordinary objects several meters underground, indicating that it has other talents besides the three abilities displayed on the panel.

"It's just a common application of [substantial mental power]."

Upon hearing Fren's question, the parrot casually replied, "Unless there is a special material that can isolate mental energy, soil, steel, walls, and flesh are like air to mental energy."

"I've tried, but I can only perceive the outline of objects. My current mental perception can cover a radius of five meters, but it can't reach solid objects, just like how the speed of light travels is different in different media." Asking a parrot seems a bit strange, but Fren doesn't think there's anything wrong with it.

The parrot preened its feathers with its claws and said, "It's not about penetration, it's about coexistence. When I say treat these things like air, I don't mean they're as easily penetrated by mental energy as air."

Spiritual power has no substance. By dispersing one's spiritual power, making it thinner than an atom, one can naturally perceive everything.

"Psychic energy is 'alive,' and should be viewed as the boundless and endless psionic energy of the warp, rather than as mountains and earth in reality."

If a bird understands the concept of density, knows about atoms, and even has consciousness that has traveled to subspace, then that bird is no ordinary bird.

"Apple Organization, have you ever measured your intelligence?" If not, Fren planned to give this bird a set of test questions.

"If you lower my IQ by eighty, then I might barely qualify as a genius," the parrot said proudly, its tail wagging. In its eyes, most other creatures were mentally challenged, and even the researchers who used it as a guinea pig were no different from the two stupid dogs beside it.

"Not bad," Fren commented simply.

With that level of skill, he would certainly qualify to be Sherlock Holmes's sidekick.

Having only known each other for two days, Fren hadn't introduced the bird to the members of the Sherlock Holmes family. Given the opportunity later, the parrot would naturally have the chance to meet Mycroft and Sherlock.