Because it would entirely encase the teeth, only by transforming the dentures into this type of teeth guard could the material be fully utilized. After all, even if a little too much material were present in some areas, it was merely a matter of slightly increasing the thickness and length of the dentures.
After coming up with a preliminary transformation plan, Zhang Yanhang took out a piece of crimson iron from his waist bag and placed it in his mouth, directly biting down to make an impression.
Accompanied by the sounds of metal twisting and friction, Zhang Yanhang’s teeth marks were perfectly captured on the piece of crimson iron.
The biting strength of an ordinary human’s teeth can reach several dozens of kilograms, not to mention Zhang Yanhang, an Awakener whose strength had already been enhanced to the Second Tier Limit, easily biting into crimson iron without encountering much resistance.
Why did Zhang Yanhang need to make an impression? Naturally, because it was simpler. Although he could multi-task by observing his own teeth for any auspicious signs and making appropriate shapes for the crimson iron teeth using alchemy, it would ultimately be rather cumbersome.
It was better to make an impression first and then use it to transform the crimson iron dentures, and by doing so, it would also ensure that after the transformation, the dentures’ details would be consistent in every aspect, reducing the difficulty of fusion.
After making the impression, Zhang Yanhang took out another piece of crimson iron from his waist bag. He was now going to use this piece of iron to forge a model of his own teeth, or more precisely, to craft dentures that would match his teeth guard.
"Alas, even though I don’t need dentures, I’m somehow starting to craft them for myself out of nowhere..."
While he was reflecting on this, Zhang Yanhang activated his alchemy. He threw both the impression and the crimson iron into the Alchemy Array, then manipulated the Array to rapidly melt the crimson iron into a pool of liquid and directly poured it into the impression to form a shape based on his teeth marks.
Since the quality of crimson iron was quite low, it took Zhang Yanhang only a few seconds to finish shaping it. After completing this step, the crafting of the dentures was considered complete, although normally, alchemists would start to enchant at this stage, this had no relation to these dentures.
Setting aside whether Zhang Yanhang knew how to enchant, even if he did, there was no need to enchant a pair of dentures that were used as a mold; such enchantment would be meaningless.
Speaking of enchanting, Zhang Yanhang really felt like going to the Goblin Plain to take down the Shaman Goblins there because his alchemy originated from Shaman Goblins. He believed that surely, within the Shaman Goblins’ treasure boxes, he could find items related to alchemy.
Items like formulas for crafting small Magic Recovery Potions or knowledge and artifacts related to enchantment. Zhang Yanhang had long coveted the formula for small Magic Recovery Potions, as they could help him rapidly recover Energy Value during battle.
Although Zhang Yanhang hadn’t yet encountered any enemies that required the enhancement of his Spiritual Power to defeat, once he did, Energy Value would surely deplete rapidly when enhancing his entire body. At that time, being able to swiftly recover Energy Value with small Magic Recovery Potions would undoubtedly play a significant role in greatly extending the duration of his Spiritual Qi Blessing. Therefore, Zhang Yanhang was determined to procure the formula and related materials for small Magic Recovery Potions. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ novel fire.net
"Never mind, I shouldn’t think about this right now. Let’s continue crafting the teeth guard."
After crafting the dentures to be used as a mold, Zhang Yanhang immediately placed another pair of ready-to-be-transformed crimson iron dentures into the Alchemy Array. Since fusing them to +3 would be enough to enhance them to Purple Quality, Zhang Yanhang had a total of eight tries.
As long as Zhang Yanhang doesn’t consecutively fail at transforming eight pairs of dentures, his plan to transform the crimson iron dentures this time will likely succeed. Of course, if possible, Zhang Yanhang still hoped to succeed on the first try, as he felt the success rate for transforming dentures into teeth guards was quite high.
Moreover, if he repeatedly failed under these circumstances, it might indicate not an issue with his transformation technique, but rather with his transformation plan itself, potentially necessitating a shift to another piece of Equipment related to the teeth.
But due to the lack of any other ideas for equipment related to teeth, Zhang Yanhang felt that if the teeth guard, which was so closely associated with teeth, failed, then subsequent modifications would become quite challenging.
With the infusion of Zhang Yanhang’s Energy Value, the Crimson Iron Teeth quickly melted into a pool of crimson metal liquid under the effect of the Alchemy Array and gradually covered the mold that had just been successfully crafted.
Since the space left for the teeth within could be directly fitted to the mold, all Zhang Yanhang needed to do was to simply decorate the exterior of the teeth guard.
Seeing as it was a rare opportunity and the material of the Crimson Iron Teeth was somewhat in excess, Zhang Yanhang did not shape the teeth guard with the flat teeth typical of humans, but rather into a shape similar to the triangular sharp teeth of a shark.
Indeed, even though the plan to transform into a second set of teeth had been abandoned due to the high chance of failure, Zhang Yanhang still couldn’t get sharks out of his mind, so he applied that inspiration here.
Since Zhang Yanhang would immediately switch the teeth guard to a hidden state after wearing it, he sculpted it into the shape of shark teeth; after all, since it wouldn’t be visible normally, why not create a more interesting design.
Looking at the freshly forged Crimson Iron Teeth Guard before him, Zhang Yanhang immediately opened its attribute list, eager to see if anything had gone awry after the transformation.
[Crimson Iron Teeth Guard (Unnamed)]
[Origin: Ashen World, Crimson Iron Ore Vein, Crimson Iron Ant Nest Dalagu, Core Area, Zhang Yanhang.]
[Defensive Power: 30]
[Additional Attributes: Flame Resistance +3.8%.]
[Additional Attributes: Acid Resistance +3.8%.]
[Additional Attributes: Charm +1.]
[Usage Requirements: Charm 10 points.]
[Score: 37 (Blue item score ranges from 31 to 70.)]
[Introduction: Originally a seemingly ordinary but well-crafted set of Crimson Iron Teeth, it was unfeasible for the wearer, newcomer alchemist Zhang Yanhang, to equip them due to his already healthy teeth. Consequently, after some modification, the newcomer alchemist Zhang Yanhang reforged them into a pair of Crimson Iron Teeth Guard.]