Added you to guild. Currently I think the only benefit is chat and making it easier to borrow monsters, but they just added it recently so I expect there to be more perks in the future. Awakening monsters take a ton of farming at low levels. I probably spend 2-3 days to get the mats to awaken one of my fire guys, but it's definitely worth it.
Side note;
You've hit the jackpot if you can get a fire inugami. This thing is a beast when awakened. It's main spam skill has a 30% chance to attack again, on each attack. Most I've seen is 7 in a row so far, and you get another turn if you kill the monster. I'd toss 4 fatal runes and 2 blade runes on him, focusing on +% atk if possible. Now I just need to level a strong fire leader that boosts atk power.
-Grimm: The ghosts are definitely a wall I hit, but was able to power through them by focus firing the ones that heal. It's pretty touch and go, but with a good burst team you should be able to pass the inital pain and suffering.
Here's a video for him. I'd put it on mute though since someone can't figure out how to record without ching-chong-potato.