Starting with helping Zhao Kai ascend the throne in the snow

"Extreme Night Slash." Hawkeye's eyes grew even colder as he saw pirates and security personnel crossing his line. He immediately unleashed his full power of Haki and sword intent, and a terrifying aura that made people suffocate surge out of his body. In an instant, everyone around felt a strong sense of danger.

"Entangled in spider silk..."

"Fireball launch..."

"Storm Kick..."

Sensing the danger emanating from Hawkeye, dozens of security personnel, led by the resolute man, launched a joint attack on him.

On the other side, several pirates who had bypassed Hawkeye rushed toward Kuzan with joyful expressions, wanting to support Tesoro, who was struggling to hold on. As long as Tesoro could escape, they would get the 10 billion Berry bounty.

"Frozen Heaven and Earth." Kuzan was slowly wearing down Tesoro's stamina. When he noticed someone interfering, he frowned, then abandoned his suppression of Tesoro and slammed his right fist, which was filled with extreme cold, into the ground.

The next second, the ground beneath Kuzan's feet rapidly froze into solid ice in all directions at a visible speed. Before the approaching pirates could even get close, they were frozen into ice sculptures by this bone-chilling cold.

"Golden Blast!" At the same time, while Kuzan froze the surrounding pirates, Tesoro finally broke free from Kuzan's suppression, armored his fist and wrapped it with Haki, unleashing the effect of the Golden Melt Cannon. He used the huge shockwave, heat radiation, and shattered gold fragments generated by the explosion to damage Kuzan.

However, with a loud shattering sound, Kuzan's location was reduced to a pile of broken ice, while his true form had escaped Tesoro's attack range by transforming into an elemental form.

"Golden Giant, gather me!" Although Tesoro failed to injure Kuzan in one move, he didn't dwell on it too much. Instead, while Kuzan was dodging, he immediately used the power of the Gold-Gold Fruit to make the surrounding gold rush towards him, trying to gather a huge golden giant body to serve as armor.

Under Tesoro's control, countless streams of gold surged across the ground like living water, covering his feet at a visible speed and rapidly spreading upwards—his ankles, calves...

Large amounts of gold continued to pour in at an extremely rapid pace, and the surrounding snow-covered ground was instantly illuminated by the gleaming light of the gold.

"Don't even think about succeeding, freeze the world." But just as the gold covered Tesoro's waist, Kuzan appeared beside him at some point, his hands radiating extreme cold as he placed them on the ground, freezing the gold that was surging from all around him.

On one side was Tesoro's ability to summon gold, and on the other side was the extreme cold that froze the gold to the ground. The two sides were briefly locked in a stalemate. No matter how the gold water struggled on the ground, it could not escape its fate of being frozen. Under the interference of Kuzan's cold air, Tesoro was unable to condense the golden giant at all.

"Good." Hawkeye couldn't help but exclaim in admiration after seeing Kuzan cleverly use his Devil Fruit power to stop Tesoro from summoning the Gold.

Just as Hawkeye was praising Kuzan, Tesoro, who was affected by the cold air, silently revealed a sinister smile. Then, he drew a specially made pistol from his waist and suddenly fired a shot at Kuzan while he was freezing the ground with all his might.

With a "poof," as the smoke from Tesoro's pistol dissipated, Kuzan, clutching his right shoulder, staggered back a few steps and collapsed to the ground, crimson blood seeping from between his fingers.

Kuzan was shot. Tesoro's pistol fired a special seastone bullet with extremely high speed and kinetic energy. Caught off guard, Kuzan's Haki was almost instantly shattered by the bullet. The seastone bullet was deeply embedded in Kuzan's shoulder, causing him to lose the ability to control his Devil Fruit.

With Kuzan no longer holding him back, the surrounding gold surged onto Tesoro without any obstruction, and in the blink of an eye, Tesoro transformed into a golden giant fifty meters tall.

"Kuzan, how are you?" Hawkeye asked as he approached Kuzan after instantly defeating his opponent.

"I was only shot once, I'm fine. As long as the Seastone bullet is removed, I'll regain my strength," Kuzan said weakly.

Seastone is the nemesis of Devil Fruit users. Once touched by Seastone, a Devil Fruit user will become weak and powerless, and can only be slaughtered at will.

"It hurts a bit, bear with it." Hawkeye said in a low voice, then grabbed Kuzan's right arm and used his black knife to remove the Seastone bullet that was lodged deep in his shoulder.

"Hiss!" Kuzan gasped in pain at Hawkeye's sudden action, but in the blink of an eye, he felt the weakness in his body disappear, and Hawkeye had removed the Seastone bullet.

"I'll handle Tesoro, and you can take care of the rest of the small fry, right?" Hawkeye removed the bullets from Kuzan and then looked at Tesoro with his knife.

“No problem, I can stop them with one hand.” Kuzan said calmly, sealing the injury on his shoulder with ice.

"Hawkeye, Crocodile, Aokiji, why are you pressing me so hard? If you're willing to back down now, I'll pretend nothing happened today." The Golden Giant Netazoro's heart pounded as he saw Hawkeye approaching with his sword, and he hurriedly shouted.

"I'll say it again: either you come with us, or I'll beat you up and take you away," Hawkeye said coldly.

"You forced me to do this, Golden Fountain!" Upon hearing Hawkeye's words, Tesoro roared, and his massive body suddenly spewed out jets of golden water into the sky.

However, after these fountains flew into the sky, they did not fall like water droplets, but instead turned into a sky full of flying gold dust, which shone with a mesmerizing golden light under the sunlight as the breeze blew.

These gold dusts may seem cute, but they actually hide danger. Once touched or inhaled, they will be controlled by Tesoro and able to damage the target from within, making them extremely vicious.

"Armament Haki infuses me." Facing the golden fountain released by Tesoro, Hawkeye's expression remained unchanged. He activated the Armament Haki within his body to envelop himself, preventing himself from being touched by the golden powder.

Just as Hawkeye used Armament Haki to protect himself, he suddenly realized that Tesoro had disappeared from his sight. His originally huge golden body had just turned into a golden fountain.

"Tesoro ran away, he ran towards the docks." Just as Hawkeye was in shock, Kuzan's voice rang in his ears.

Hawkeye looked over and saw Tesoro, dressed in a tattered burgundy suit, sprinting towards the dock. Clearly, he realized he had no chance against Hawkeye and his men, so he feinted and tried to escape.