After Cori took a picture with the host, production team and the cheque, he received a message that his 1 million platinum gold coins had been transferred to his account and he would be able to see the monies in his status. "That's convenient," Cori thought while comparing to the archaic banking system on Earth.
After he left the room, he noticed that the door that leads to the game show vanished without a trace, seemingly absent from the beginning. Cori wondered about his surreal experience and asked, "Alice, was it just a simulation or was I really on 'Do you want to be a Millionaire'?" Alice replied with pride, "Master, you can be proud of yourself for winning the prize!" "Huh!" Cori clued in on the possibilities on what had happened. He proceeded to ask again, "Is it really live-streamed everywhere?" Alice translated and happily responded, "Master, you're literally a mega star now!" "Oh! no!" Cori's heart wrenched in anxiety. He wanted to live a simple life but it seemed his destiny prevented him from doing so. He was not used to standing out amongst the crowd, especially when he felt he had some sort of social anxiety.
While Cori was still dealing with his new found reality, Alice contemplated hard on the approaching deadline while stringing him to the next destination like a balloon. Alice, "Now we are just left with raising the defence, luck and stealth stats. Cori is probably already invincible with his passive skill, but if he meet someone who could disable all his skills, he would be as helpless as a tofu."
"How many more exhibitions to go?" Cori squeaked in mid air, getting used to the weird and random events. Alice replied while multi-tasking, "Just one last exhibition, Master."
Floating along the the stairs to the top floor in an evidently high spirit, Cori tried to sing the alphabet song to practice his enunciation, "Eh, Pui, See, Deek, Ehh, Ehf, Seeg...Eh, I, Seh, Keh... " Alice interrupted, "Master, this is the exhibition of potions, elixirs, herbs, and medicines. You will be able to learn about the identification process, extraction, and manufacturing process of the pills and potions. There is also an alchemist lab and pill furnace for visitors to try and manufacture their own potions and pills under system's guidance."
"Finally, something useful." Cori squeaked in eagerness, ready to dive straight into the subject. Alex put Cori down gently in front of a revolving door, "The entrance is through this door master, please do not be alarmed when the system scan us for security clearance."
Cori nodded and passed through the revolving door into a chamber with disinfecting holy light and anti-bacterial spray. "One could never be too careful nowadays." Cori thought to himself. Alice passed through a virus scanner at the same moment. System announced in a monotone manner, "OS Alice cleared, access granted." Cori entered the exhibit, feeling very clean and sterile.
His eyes explored the area, noting the minimalistic industrial look of the place. To his left was a sign pointing to the medicine hall and furnace lab and to the right the signage indicated the potions apothecary and alchemist lab. And right in front of him was a glass room with rows and rows of medicinal herbs nourished by different sources of water and nutrients, and diamond cabinets of rare preserved animals and mystical beasts frozen as if they just fell into slumber. Each of them preserved in their own special climate through some sort of complicated formations. Cori now understood why this part of the museum needed security clearance- it included forbidden ingredients. If other slimes knew about it, it would certainly bring chaos.
"Master, are you interested in potion making?" Alice said as Cori wandered into the room on his right. "Oui!" Cori replied. The translation detected the language as French and Alice proceeded to explain, "In the room there are 6 potions that you absolutely need to avoid- Alamu potion, Old summer potion, Hagi potion, Cid Ghazni potion, Raigaford potion and Take Cast potion. These potions were concocted by the deity and could not be found anywhere else. The effects were not recorded in the system so only the Lord knows what the effects are."
Cori looked at the massive collections of potions. "Master, there is a bad luck potion formula and good luck potion formula. I recommend you to try making some good luck potions to help you excel at the entrance exam to the training school! Here are the ingredients and steps! And here are some samples of the good luck potions." Cori used [Observation] on the potion,"Liquer de la Trygve Lukken (secret uncommon)- a potion used to permanently increase the luck stat by 100 points. Overconsumption might lead to bad luck." "Overconsumption might lead to bad luck? How much is considered overconsumption?" Cori wondered with apprehension.
Cori read through the list of ingredients, "one millenium 4 leaf clover, 100 grams of fresh fairy dusts, and 500ML of maneki-neko's blessed moon water, 500ML of sun rainwater blessed by fox yokai couples, and a spoonful of mountain flower honey for taste." Cori followed the instructions for Liquer de la Trygve Lukken and realised it was very similar to making mead- the fairy dusts being the starter. The honey, clover and water were the ingredients. However, the special attributes of the water sped up the fermentation process so that the alcohol could be extracted within an hour. The process which could take years were simplified to an efficient on hour! Furthermore, the note stated that the longer one stored it (properly), the tastier and more potent it would become.
Cori realised that the bad luck potions were actually failed and spoiled good luck potions! An hour later, Cori siphoned the golden liquor into three 500ml blessed holy bottles. System, "Liquer de la Trygve Lukken (Secret Unique Rare)- a bottle of good luck that can permanently raise luck stat by 150 points (20% alcohol). Overconsumption might lead to bad luck and intoxication." Tempted by the sweet scent, Cori finished one bottle by himself. Alice's plan worked! Now Cori's luck stat successfully increased by 150 points!