Sabotage contract

You might as well start off with something easy right? Plus. you remember you master saying you needed money for the other activities at the guild so this reward should more than enough, you suppose.

With that, you pick up the sabotage contract off the bar and bring it to your boss who still stands with his back to you.

"I decided to take the sabotage contract Mr.Dirt," you say making the weird man turn around with a small smile on his face.

"Ah, a very wise choose Mr. Dragunov, it's not too risky for your first job plus the pay is quite good for a mere cart smash." Mr Dirt says happily taking the contract from you in his free left hand before going on to explain that this merchant would be leaving tonight from strawberry street in the port town of magnolia.

"Lucky for you Morgan as this is your first job, I will transport you to that very street using my shadow magic. Although you will have to make your way back yourself, understood?"

Well. you thought to yourself, a free lift is a free lift even if I do have to make your own way back, it's probably worth it. MrDirt could not agree more, however, as he waves his hands about with his wine in one hand and the contract in another, he suddenly says to you.

"Oh yes and do be careful out there as it is where that famous mage lives Miss Lucy Heartfilla, I believe but I am sure she would be in bed by the time our friend comes about."

A last minute warning or a challenge? Either way, you thank your boss, who, with a happy smile and before you can even react, engulfs you with his shadow magic.

There's nothing but darkness for nearly half an hour before, suddenly, you find yourself in the late afternoon on an empty strawberry street, with a canal running down the middle of the street and houses on either side.

"So this is where the merchant is going to be coming by and where the famous Lucy Heartfilla lives? Quite the busy, and dangerous, street that we have here." You say to yourself taking a quick look around the area, just to get a feel for the place.

As you can guess, there is a rope lying near the canal to stop and tie up boats, there are small alleyways between each house which look dark enough to hide in and for some reason, you notice, the street seems to have small holes in it, perhaps to drain overflowing water?

Whatever the reason, you have mere hours before the merchant comes through here on his cart. As such you have to decide quickly, how you are going to wreck his cart?

First, you think about the small holes in the street, you could use your magic to make toy soldiers who you slip into the holes making them the perfect ambush, making them fly upwards, destroying the cart as it passes. Then you think about using the alleyway and your magic perhaps using your magic to make a toy that could jump out the darkness and ram the cart into the canal?

Both ways would work a treat, but there are other ways. After thinking about the matter for nearly an hour, with only a few people passing by, looking at you like you're weird for standing in the middle of a street. You decide to...