Aoa VS airspeed

[McLovin242]

Hello all. I have a burning question in my mind and would love to pull some knowledge from the ever so experienced folks on here. So i've always been taught that an increase in lift is only achieved by increasing the AOA and that stalls only happen when the critical AOA has been reached and not due to speed. What i'm confused on however is that when you travel slower you need to increase AOA in order to stay level which means there must be some relationship between speed and lift which is not making sense to me. Because if there were no relationship, then every plane should be able to fly level at 10kts indicated without stalling and if it were to increase the aoa at all then that would be an increase in lift and it should then climb

Thanks in advance