Superstar From Age 0 - Chapter 754
Chapter 754
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A familiar classical piece was playing, but I didn’t know the title.
The orchestra’s sound was harmonious and sweet, with various instruments blending together.
But I had no time to appreciate the music.
All my nerves and senses were focused on one place.
I didn’t breathe or blink. Without realizing it, I couldn’t utter the admiration that welled up from my stomach, and I just stared at the scenery that unfolded before me.
It was a white temple.
At the back, there was a tent (probably where the staff were waiting).
The tent was white, but with a hint of gold.
It served as the background for the temple.
And in front of it, there was a platform shaped like , about two steps high.
In the center of it, there was a square pond (?), which was flat, but seemed to have something installed.
Clean and transparent streams of water were rising like small fountains.
The frontmost part, which was close to the people, was empty, like the entrance of the temple.
And on both sides, there were six white statues, standing in pairs, facing each other in three rows.
And at the end.
Beyond the fountain that sparkled with the light.
There were three statues in a row at the back.
There were nine statues in total.
The statues, made of white marble (or maybe plaster), were all gently closing their eyes. But they looked so lifelike, as if they would open their eyes and look at the people any moment.
It was awe-inspiring.
It was like I had moved to the garden of an ancient Greek-Roman temple in an instant.
It was a fantastical and surreal sight.
‘I thought the statues would be nothing special.’ I had come here with a light heart, but I didn’t notice my mouth opening by itself.
It felt like all my other senses had disappeared, and only my sight was dominating my body, mind, and head.
As I gaped at the temple and the statues, the art team members at the reception desk and the [Temple] team members who came out to guide us smiled faintly.
“…Wow…What is this…”
Someone blurted out that without knowing, and then the people who were lost in their thoughts started to come to their senses one by one.
The sense that was only left with sight expanded in an instant.
I heard the sweet classical music in my ears, and felt the gentle breeze on my skin.
I smelled the grass scent in my nose, and tasted the aftertaste of the drinks or snacks I had eaten earlier in my mouth.
With those senses, I felt like I had returned to the real world.
Of course, when I looked at the temple in front of me, I felt like I had stepped into the beautiful Greek-Roman mythology again.
“…I don’t think I need to go to Greece?”
“Right.”
The people who didn’t expect to have such thoughts from the work made by college students uttered the highest praise.
I came here to kill some time, but I felt like I couldn’t leave this place.
The people who were staring blankly at the front moved their steps.
The fence that surrounded the temple in a shape was wider than the temple, so I couldn’t see it clearly. I wanted to see the amazing statues closer.
“You can’t cross the fence.”
“Oh, sorry.”
Like the student at the reception desk, the students wearing Greek priest robes (flowy white clothes) smiled and guided those people.
“Can’t we go inside then?”
“If you have a blessing ticket, you can enter from 25 minutes later.”
“…A blessing ticket?”
At that, the two high school students who were staring blankly came to their senses and their eyes sparkled.
A blessing ticket!
It was a suspicious and dubious paper until a while ago, but now it was a ticket to the world of mythology. And they had two of them in their hands!
“Is this right?”
The two high school students ran to the reception desk and handed out the two crumpled blessing tickets.
The people’s eyes were drawn to the two high school students and the priest at the reception desk.
Their ears perked up.
The priest (art team member) nodded with a smile.
“Yes. You can use it.”
“Wow!”
A scream-like cheer burst out without knowing. The people gathered around the reception desk slowly.
“The temple will open from 25 minutes later, and this is the ticket that you can enter then. Once you use it, this stamp will be stamped, so you can’t use it twice.”
“Then can’t we enter before 25 minutes?”
“Yes. Unfortunately, the statues are too precious.”
Especially, the main god statue in the center (=Senior Seo Jun) was so expensive that it would be a disaster if something happened.
The art team member swallowed the rest of his words and continued the explanation.
The two high school students and the people nodded their heads.
“I thought so. They look like real people!”
“I don’t know who sculpted them, but they will surely become a world-class sculptor!”
Hmm.
A world-class actor was included.
“Can’t we get an autograph?”
“No. There is no autograph session.”
The priest answered kindly to the barrage of questions from the two high school students.
“Even if you have a blessing ticket, only 30 people can enter in order, so please be careful. It will be too crowded if everyone enters.”
“What if we can’t enter?”
“You can enter in the next time.”
“Can we enter multiple times?”
“If you have a blessing ticket that hasn’t been stamped, you can.”
It was hard to check everyone’s faces.
At that, the two high school students smiled brightly. The people whispered with their companions.
“Where can we get a blessing ticket?”
At someone’s question, the two high school students widened their eyes.
Come to think of it, they picked up the blessing tickets that someone had thrown away, so they didn’t know where to get them.
At that, the priest answered with a smile.
“We hid them all over the Han University.”
“…What?”
The people who wanted to buy the blessing tickets with money, like they did at the other departments’ stores, looked at the priest with dumbfounded faces.
“To put it simply, it’s like a treasure hunt. They are not inside the school buildings, but outside. They are in places that don’t interfere with other departments’ events.”
Meanwhile, the people who were walking along the square fence and admiring the statues, were also listening to the explanation from the [Temple] team members who were walking inside the fence, like they were really priests in the temple.
The priests wearing flowy outfits smiled and said.
“Blessings should come down to those who are earnest.”
No.
That’s true, but.
This is a college festival, right?
Everyone thought for a moment, but there was nothing wrong with it being free.
Just…
Silence fell around the temple for a while. People’s eyes rolled around.
And at the same time, they all ran in different directions.
Everyone here was a competitor.
Aaaah!!
It was the beginning of the era of finding the great blessing tickets.
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People who came following the classical music or came to kill time by looking at the pamphlets were staring at the statues in awe. Then they heard the explanation from the priests and ran to start the ‘blessing ticket hunt’.
“There are only two minutes left until the opening.”
Like a priest, the prop team members who were walking around the fence whispered to Seo-jun and the actor team who were acting as statues.
“Already 30 people are lined up waiting.”
With their eyes closed and standing still, it was a perfect help for the actor team who couldn’t look around.
As the priests (team members) said, outside the temple, 30 people were holding blessing tickets and lined up.
And there were also people who were curious about what was going on, seeing the people who were crowded and cut off right in front of them.
“Wow. Did Min-hyung sunbae and his friends make this?”
Among the 30 people, there were two high school students, the art team leader, and four art department juniors who helped Park Min-hyung.
“Wow…!”
Their eyes were spinning with admiration.
“As expected of the ace of the art department!”
“Did Min-hyung sunbae also do the sculptures? I thought he mainly did drawings and designs.”
“Right?”
The curiosity was brief.
One of the juniors said with sparkling eyes.
“Maybe he learned sculpture during the summer vacation! Geniuses can learn foreign languages and draw realistic paintings like pros in just two months.”
“That could be!”
The prop team member (who had switched) smiled and said at their conversation.
At that noisy time.
The sand of the 25-minute hourglass ran out.
The people who were checking the time also quickly prepared their cameras.
Only 5 minutes.
It was too short a time to look at the statues and take pictures with them.
Ding-
A clear bell rang.
“Then we will enter. Please take out your blessing tickets.”
At the priest’s words, the two high school students who were at the front of the line held out their blessing tickets with bright faces.
Thank you to those who gave up your blessing tickets!
Thank you so much!
A stamp was stamped over the words ‘blessing ticket’ written in the center of the unfolded sheep wings drawn on the paper.
It was a stamp that looked like a Greek temple.
“You can’t go up to the pedestal, and you can’t touch the statues.”
“Yes!”
The two high school students nodded their heads repeatedly and entered the fence.
Somehow, even though they just passed through the fence made of wood, they felt like they had stepped into a new world.
[(Line/Production)Jegal Sega’s Beginner Illusion Array(Low) is activated.]
It was a new world.
[(Line/Production)Jegal Sega’s Beginner Illusion Array(Low)]
It allows the target to feel the sensation that the producer wants weakly.
Sensation: Mystery
It was one of the arrays of Jegal Sega, famous for arrays, and it was used by Sega’s children to train various senses.
The array was installed inside the fence.
“Wow…”
The people who followed the high school students also felt the strange sensation.
With the sight of the temple seen up close, the wonderful music they heard for the first time, and the splendid statues, they couldn’t help but admire.
“Ah! Let’s go and take pictures quickly!”
“Yeah!”
The people who were in awe came to their senses.
There was no time for this.
Only 5 minutes. It was not enough time to look at one statue in detail.
The moving high school students made the other people move as well.
The statues seemed to have themes.
“This statue holding a bouquet of flowers is the god of love, and this statue wearing a sword on his waist is the god of strength. He is also called the god of health.”
The priest’s explanation was added.
The statue holding a book was the god of learning, the statue playing the lyre was the god of music, and the statue holding a brush and palette was the god of art.
“Is this… the god of acting?”
A high school student peeked his head out and pointed to a statue that looked like he was acting with a script in his hand and his arm stretched out.
“Yes. That’s right. This is the school where actor Lee Seo-jun attends, so we can’t leave out the god of acting.”
That was true.
They all nodded and took pictures.
They looked like tourists, and laughter came from outside.
“What do those three statues mean?”
Someone asked, pointing to the two statues holding a spear and a shield and the central statue in the middle.
“Especially, the statue in the middle.”
Everyone’s eyes turned to the statue in the middle.
The statue wearing a dress with more colorful decorations than the other statues’ clothes, and a light feeling, was admirable and beautiful to anyone who saw it.
A flat forehead and a sharp nose.
The eyelids that were slightly closed and the eyebrows and eyelashes that seemed to be carved one by one.
The lips and skin that looked soft even though they were marble.
And the veins and muscles of the arm that showed on the back of the hand.
It was a delicately carved statue that seemed to come alive and move at any moment.
“The statue in the middle is the main god, the god who rules over the lower gods here.”
Someone said without knowing.
“The god of beauty, Jool.”
Laughter filled with agreement filled the temple.
“Sure enough, that statue is exceptionally handsome.”
“The atmosphere is different too.”
Even though they were just standing still with their eyes closed like the other statues, they felt like they could really call him the ‘main god ()’ because of the aura he had.
“Maybe Min-hyung sunbae focused the most when he made that statue.”
“Right.”
The art department juniors whispered.
“Then what about the statues on both sides?”
The priest opened his mouth with a smile.
“They are the lower gods who protect the main god. The spear and shield they are holding are their main weapons.”
“Oh…”
People’s eyes sparkled at the statues that had stories.
After the priest’s brief explanation, it was free time.
The 30 people walked around the statues and took pictures.
They took pictures of the statues alone and with them.
The most popular one was the main god statue, which was handsome enough to be called the ‘god of beauty’.
“But it’s inconvenient to take pictures inside.”
“Right.”
It was okay because they had the zoom function, but they wanted to take pictures with it and felt sorry.
Then, ding- a clear bell rang.
“Is it over already!?”
Just when they were about to lament that five minutes was too short, the priest said.
“Then we will start the blessing ceremony now.”
At that, the 30 people inside the fence and the people outside the fence buzzed.
“…Blessing ceremony?”
“Wasn’t taking pictures the end?”
The priest smiled and continued.
“Yes. There is still an event left. Please stand behind the god of blessing you want. If you wish for love, stand behind the god of love, if you want health, stand behind the god of strength.”
The people who blinked their eyes soon moved with interested faces. The two high school students and the art department juniors also had excited faces.
“There was such an event!”
“I thought it was over after watching!”
The place they headed to was naturally behind the god of art holding a brush and palette.
“God of art, please! Please let me get into this school!”
“Please let me follow Min-hyung sunbae, no, even half of him!”
The two high school students and the art department juniors who prayed with half-serious and half-playful hearts behind the god of art standing on the pedestal raised their heads.
And they met eyes with the god of learning statue standing across from them.
…Huh?
They met eyes with the statue…?
…!
Aaaah-!!!
Screams rang out from all directions.
