Spade the Thief is dead. In the world of Esem, where players are spawned with no memory of what came before, there is one guild which stands supreme. When one of their members dies mysteriously at sea, it is up to a newly spawned player to unearth the truth from the Old Guard’s graveyard of buried secrets. A new guild must be formed to challenge the Old Guard, but Esem is no longer as it seems. Ancient magics are coming to light and pacts with hideous powers are being formed. Can this new guild hope to challenge the guild of the Old Guard? ———— Welcome to Bane of the Old Guard! What you see in the chapter section are the first four volumes (100 chapters) of the story. Chapter 24 is the end of Volume 1, 50 is the ending of Volume 2, 75 is Volume 3, and 100 is Volume 4. I will be updating the actual chapters to reflect this in the following days.  This is now a passion project of mine, and as such will not have the 3 chapter releases a week as when I began. Volume 5 is in the works, and I will begin posting 1-2 chapters a week in the coming days (so around 9/17). Volume 5 is slated to be 24 chapters, and will resemble an actual novel as opposed to the hectic release schedule of the previous volumes. If you have stuck with this story from the beginning, or are just about to start, welcome to Bane of the Old Guard.