@BlueCatMage
Is it just me or does anyone else think that this series is now pulling a desperate "DBZ hyperbolic time chamber" stunt?
Maybe. I'm debating half and half. It's possible this is going to be a hyperbolic time chamber situation. But I also think it's very likely he'll manage to tame enough of an army to compete with an S Rank hunter.
It takes an S-rank hunter + several A-ranks to take on an A-rank dungeon. So he doesn't have to reach S-Rank. He just needs to reach high enough into A-rank with his army, that he can compete with a lone S-rank hunter (No one is going to help that S-rank hunter, they all hate his guts).
You also need to take into account that that guild master will likely become interested in him if he manages to clear the gate. So he may even be defended by that guild from the S-Rank hunter.
My genuine hope is that he doesn't reach S-Rank quite yet. And instead tames the boss of the dungeon. That would give him 2 boss-level monsters that are A-rank, which should be enough to at least put up a fight against a lone S-Rank hunter.
Also, was there ever a mention of a hunter tracking system because I still can't understand how on earth Hwang tracked him down unless there's a special GPS monitoring system attached to every single gate that's available to hunters to view?
I believe, similar to with the guild finding out about him being a re-awakened hunter situation, that he knows they're in a dungeon because they had to register him as being a member of the dungeon party in order for him to go with them.
They're a major guild in Korea, so they're likely highly official and well documented with who is going into what dungeon. And it was from that documentation that it was found out he was going in this gate.
Being an S-Rank hunter with money to sling around, he probably paid people inside the guild for the info. Or paid people that have a wide net of informants in all of the major guilds in Korea.