If Ray had no idea what the mysterious substance even was, how could he possibly extract it?

But now things were different—he'd analyzed and identified it.

The next step was extraction.

How?

Spatial cut.

He expanded his spatial domain and used spatial cuts to separate the substance from everything else around it.

It was a delicate procedure—like performing microsurgery. And because the mysterious substance was tightly intertwined with other materials, the operation was incredibly complex.