"No, don't!"
"Aargh!"
As the cries of feeble struggle faded away, the entire dining hall broke into cheers of joy. The fact that a fellow dragon was going through misfortune made these wicked dragons ecstatic even though they had all experienced the bitterness of the punishment array.
"Those idiots," Muria muttered to herself, seemingly speechless as she watched the baby dragons making a fuss.
On the platform below, the little blue dragon had been dragged into the magic array by the baby dragons and was now struggling helplessly in the bone-chilling icy water. As a dragon species that prefers nesting in scorching desserts, being immersed in icy water was quite unbearable for the Blue Dragon.
The punishment array imposed on the red dragon was different. It, too, was encapsulated in a sphere of water, although it was different from the almost white sphere that housed the blue dragon due to the intense cold.
