Creating a mana core was a delicate and essential process, after all, your ability to create a core directly affected your ability to channel that magic.
Due to the importance of this step in your journey to become a mage; the academy made all first years attend a 1-week-long class specifically meant to teach them how to sense their mana, control it, and form it into a functional core.
Kyle had already been through this ordeal before when he created his lightning mana core, and it wasn't a very difficult process.
In fact, Kyle believed that he could create a core that night, as his mana control was on a different level compared to when he created his Lightning core.
He just had to sense his chaos mana pool before controlling it with his will to compress it into a small spherical orb.