beat who up?
Alex immediately increased his speed, he casted all the movement spells in his arsenal in one go, other mages would not even dream to do this, no, they wouldn't dare to try this because they always needed to be extremely focused when casting spells, they had to concentrate fully on that element, trying two spells at the same time could cause a clash of Mana inside a mages body, instantly killing the mage.
But putting the fact that Alex was the creator of his mage system into consideration, such backlashes had no effect on him, thereby allowing him to insta cast spells and even cast multiple spells at the same time.
After adding the buff of his spells, Alex's speed increased drastically than that of the figure and their distance finally began to decrease, Alex was able to tell because the aftermages became more and more refined.
The distance between them continued to decrease until Alex finally found himself outside of the school.