I modeled it with a new surface to connect the parts of my model but the new surface looks worse than the old one. How can I fix?
Well… why does it have to eb “perfect”… it’s some “handcrafted” gear… so you have some unregularities which would be done by hand painting otherwise… 
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Hi, your original model looks fine you didn’t need to re do it. You can connect the other parts to the original.
if you can link or post the file i can show you how. No need for the textures.
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All you have to do is select each section/object that has modifiers on and Apply all the modifiers then you should be able to join them together.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlLyz3YNBQQ
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Well… here on the right side :
…i deleted the bevel modifier, did a simple relax and scaled the “pikes” on the Z-plane (Shift-Z) to make the “spikey” again… (maybe the crystal at the bottom needs some re-spikeing two).
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I think I’m missing something starting with your question - I’m looking at the thing on the left, and I’m wondering why you’re doing any retopology in the first place.
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Overlapping geometry of different simple forms to block out the result, bevel modifier to make some more geometry… → prototype.
Final result should be low poly. (Funny enough the first version does have 388 vertices and the othe 628).
The overlap could eb a problem on some game engines… (maybe…)
This looks really great. Thank you Okidoki. But I don’t understand how you did it. Did you join all the objects with “Join” and then merge them with “Merge Vertices”? Isn’t that more difficult?
Oh no… i took your example on the right (middle in my image) and used relax to make it more “equaly distributed”…
I am sorry, I still don’t understand. When you say “Relax” are you talking about the “Loop Tool” addon? Didn’t you merge all objects with “Merge Vertices” after joining them with “Join”?
Edit mode: Vertex → Relax (last one in mene)
I think I’m blind or stupid. I can’t understand what you are saying and I can’t find it, even though I think I have mastered the Blender interface. I’m sorry to put you to so much trouble man, but can you help me a little more please?
Man, I really don’t understand. 
First, apply the modifications.
Second, join the islands.
Then, connect the vertices.
Finally, use “Relax”.
Is that what you mean?
Vertex → Relax menu is missing. (blender 3.6)
Are you using Addon? 
I checked bu disabeling LoopTools… but it could eb something else …
ohh yes… See also Docs-Blender Manual: Edit Mesh Tools …
Blender is so nice already with the “shipped with tools”…
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I have verified that it is a feature in Edit Mesh Tools Addon. 
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Ups… overlooked this… because of the Relax feature of Mesh tools …
I used you “result” with out the bevel modifier (deleted) and used relac from the edit mesh tools. And because the “spikes” were “flattened” just selected them and scale them “outwards”.
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