Parry Shield

The Parry Shield is a shield weapon which exchanges the ability to block for more powerful parries, especially for deflected bombs and ranged attacks.

Location
The path to the blueprint requires the Ram Rune. You need a second village key to unlock the blueprint, so you should not unlock the door in the middle of the level. You must instead use the secret path above the door, which requires the Spider Rune or an amulet that gives extra jumps. The platforms required to make the jump may not properly spawn due to RNG, so it may require multiple tries.

Trivia

 * Since this shield cannot be held up, it cannot absorb nor deal non-critical damage, however the shield is listed to block 75% damage and deal 20 base damage.
 * May be based off of the Buckler from Dark Souls 3, both in design and functionality.