With a green body and dragon-head-like arms on his wrists, the hero flies out on a gust of wind, spinning at high speed, and is surrounded by a storm of flames.
[Elemental HERO Flame Wingman, ATK 2100]
"Battle!" Yuei Vu waved his hand, "Elemental HERO Flame Wingman, attack the face-down monster!"
The Flame Wingman flashed his white wings, his body flew up, and his long tail swung behind him. His body wrapped in flames was like a cannonball fired towards Anubis' field.
"Hmph." The King of Destruction sneered lowly, and raised his palm, "At this moment, you have stepped into the trap set in my domain — Ordeal of a Traveler!"
The set card in his back row was flipped, and it turned out to be a Continuous Trap card.
Ordeal of a Traveler: When an opponent's monster declares an attack: Your opponent chooses 1 random card in your hand and calls the type of the card (Monster, Spell, or Trap), and if they call it wrong, return the attacking monster to the hand.
In DM's original animation, Yugi's grandfather Sugoroku Muto also used this card.
"Come on, let's choose." Anubis stretched out his palm, and the three cards hovered in his hand, "The one you chose is a monster? A spell? Or a trap?"
Three cards in hand… Is it pure luck?
"Then I will choose that card." Yuei Vu pointed to the leftmost card of Anubis, "I guess it is a Spell Card."
"Spell?" Anubis snorted and smiled, his fingers moved slightly, and the card suspended in midair turned over.
Although it was far away and the tomb was poorly lit, Yuei Vu couldn't see what the card was, it was clearly recognizable from the card picture and color that it was a monster card.
"It seems that you failed the test." Anubis sneered, "The trap you triggered will cause your servant to be forcibly repatriated. Disappear for me!"
The Flame Wingman who sprinted halfway stopped stiffly as if hindered by an invisible force, and the flames burst out all over his body. With a low hum, he turned into a beam of flames and was returned to Yuei Vu's deck.
"Ordeal of a Traveler" would bounce the attacking monster back to the owner's hand. But because the Flame Wingman was a Fusion Monster, it would be returned to the Extra Deck.
The effect processing was over, and the card shown by Anubis was also flipped back. The four cards in his hand quickly mixed up, shuffled, and exchanged positions, and when they were scattered again, it was impossible to tell which card was just now.
Although there was still "Elemental HERO Stratos" on Yuei Vu's field who could attack, even if the defensive monster was destroyed, it could not cause damage to the opponent.
Conversely, if Stratos was bounced back to his hand with the effect of "Ordeal of a Traveler", then Yuei Vu's field would be empty in the next round.
"…I end my turn." Yuei Vu temporarily gave up the pursuit.
"Hmph, just this extent? To be honest, it's a bit disappointing." Anubis snorted, "But before your battle is over, I will take the initiative to trigger this other trap!"
He waved his finger and pointed to another set card in front of him, which flipped over with a burst of thick black air, as if there was dark red blood dripping along the frame.
Continuous Trap – Ultimate Offering!
"Take my blood as the price, and sacrifice the servants who are moving forward!" Anubis yelled, "Call the more senior servants in my hand, and stay in the latent state!"
[Anubis, LP 4000 → LP 3500]
While speaking, the monster in front of him also disappeared with a whirlwind of white as a sacrifice.
It was replaced by another face-down monster.
"Then it's my turn." Anubis continued.
The top card of the deck suspended in the black mist next to it disappeared out of thin air, and was teleported and suspended in front of Anubis.
After drawing cards and adding them to his hand, Anubis then waved his palm to his field.
"Hidden servant, show your true form!"
Yuei Vu quickly understood that Anubis's operation should be "Flip Summon the face-down monster on his field".
The card was turned over, and what was projected from that card was a golden, huge sculpture with a huge and sturdy body and a resolute face. The majestic expression made people feel as if it was inviolable.
[Guardian Sphinx, DEF 2400 → ATK 1700]
"The ability of Guardian Sphinx." Anubis said, "The moment it releases its latent state, all the opponent's servants will be forcibly repatriated!"
Guardian Sphinx: When this card is Flip Summoned: Return all monsters your opponent controls to the hand.
The statue released a dazzling golden light, covering the Stratos on the Yuei Vu's field. Stratos raised his arm to protect his face, but it was still hard to resist, and turned into a bunch of golden light and returned to Yuei Vu's hand.
Yuei Vu frowned.
Guardian Sphinx… This Anubis really has some troublesome things in his hands.
This thing had a defense power of 2400, and every time it was Flip Summoned, it could bounce all the opponent's monsters back to the hand. What's even more irritating was that it also had the effect of "Once per turn: You can change this card to face-down Defense Position".
That was to say, it could bounce back all the opponent's monsters once every round, which was significant in the card-playing environment many years ago.
Yuei Vu remembered that one of his friends who played cards with him when he was young especially liked using this monster.
Then… then Yuei Vu summoned his fist to duel physically with that little friend for 300 rounds…
"You who have lost all your servants are defenseless!" Anubis shouted, "Go, Guardian Sphinx! Attack directly!"
The head of the golden sculpture actually moved slightly. A golden light beam shot out from those eyes, like a penetrating impact, hit the place where Yuei Vu was head-on, and with a "boom" explosion, the thick black smoke exploded.
[Yuei Vu, LP 4000 → LP 2300]
Yuei Vu was knocked back a few steps by the impact, his knees slightly bent, and he couldn't help poking his lips.
As expected of the "King of Destruction", the impact of the incidental damage in the duel was really not weak…
"Then activate another ability of 'Guardian Sphinx'." Anubis said, "Every round, it has a chance to return to the latent state."
After the voice fell, the huge golden sculpture disappeared from the field. The huge Sphinx sculpture was retracted into a small card and placed back on the field in a covered state.
"Set another magic spell, and this round ends here."
Anubis waved his hand, and there was another set card at his feet.