"Okay."

"Um."

He was kind of expecting this to not be what it looked like.

"You might be failing to form Acid mana because you've never had somebody channel it through you and don't know what that feels like.  Much more likely is that you lack the raw Water channeling capacity, the raw Light channeling capacity, or both, in thaums per second.  If that's true, it doesn't mean you're... incompetent... or that you could do it, if you just hurt yourself... it means you physically lack the magical capacity."

He does not even know a name for this structure of thinking which some people might call a mental disorder because it is not a STANDARD mental disorder in THIS UNIVERSE.

"Okay."

"Um."

He was kind of expecting this to not be what it looked like.

"You might be failing to form Acid mana because you've never had somebody channel it through you and don't know what that feels like.  Much more likely is that you lack the raw Water channeling capacity, the raw Light channeling capacity, or both, in thaums per second.  If that's true, it doesn't mean you're... incompetent... or that you could do it, if you just hurt yourself enough... it means you physically lack the magical capacity."

He does not even know a name for this structure of thinking which some people might call a mental disorder because it is not a STANDARD mental disorder in THIS UNIVERSE.