Alright people this is going to be a fairly long read because Togashi packed a lot of stuff in this chapter:
Well we know that Isaac Netero wants the Zodiacs to go to Dark Continent. Netero had also been to the Dark Continent before but found that his view of strength is more on that for combat. Beyond, on the other hand, views strength to be that of determination and the desire to explore the unknown - something Netero acknowledges as a far more virtuous quality of a hunter. This is why Netero is "making a request" for the Hunters Association to set up their own expedition and beat Beyond for the prestige of exploring and colonizing the Dark Continent.
The country of Kakin wants to go to the Dark Continent. The Dark Continent remember from last chapter, is taboo and humans have not visited it for centuries.
The V5 (Five Modern Nation Leaders) don't want to deal with this because each time humanity has stepped into the Dark Continent, they've only brought calamities back. Another reason is out of the 149 times humanity has tried to voyage the Dark Continent, there were only 28 survivors and 3 were able to live normal lives (Beyond was one of them). Mind you these were powerful individuals with a lot of luck on their side. So it would be very reckless and dangerous for the citizens of Kakin to head over to the Dark Continent.
V5 order The Zodiacs to capture Beyond, as a way to get their own info on the Dark Continent (preferably the calamities).
Beyond gives himself up, proposing they take him to The Dark Continent under the pretense that they are chasing him and to obtain greater support for his trip to the Dark Continent from the Hunter's Association and V5. Funny part was he made a prediction that they would release him, which means this was all planned from the beginning. Beyond is a lot smarter than we gave him credit for and is truly the son of Isaac Netero.
The Zodiacs accept, so they can fulfill Isaac's final request/order.
The V5 plan on inviting Kakin in order to turn the organization from the V5 into the V6, in an attempt to limit the damage of the expedition that would otherwise bring more calamities back from the Dark Continent. To ensure a monitored expedition, the Hunter's Association will accompany Beyond by orders of the V5 into the Dark Continent.
The Zodiac must do this on the expedition toff the Dark Continent:
1. Keeping Beyond a prisoner
2. Fighting off Beyond's allies
3. Dealing with the 5 calamities
4. Exploring the continent to find ways to benefit mankind.
The King of Kakin is building Black Whale ships to effectively transport people from their country into the Dark Continent. The first ship will send Beyond and presumably the Zodiac 10 along with more in the future. The King estimates one million immigrants over the next five years. The V5 isn't planning on sending people other than select few into the Dark Continent. They'll use the ships to transport people to islands close to the Continent, and then tell them that's the place, so there won't be any immigrants to the continent itself.
Ging meets with Pariston and proposes he joins Beyond's team. Pariston is surprised and assumed Ging was there to stop him. Ging let's him know that is the plan and that he knows Pariston is the person behind all this expedition stuff (Beyond and Kakin going against V5 and dragging the Hunters Association in the mess). He also tells Pariston to stop causing trouble because Pariston was going to send his pet army of 5000 Chimera ant soldiers against one of two targets: the human world if the Hunter Association goes along with Beyond or the Hunter Association itself if it doesn't. Ging then tells Pariston that he will not drag innocent people's lives into this and that the Hunter Association is still big enough of a playground for him to mess with. To sweeten the deal, Ging is there as his "playmate". Pariston mentions that he sees Ging as a worthy adversary to play with and is amused that they are now going to work together in the expedition. Ging tells that him that he might want to be a lone wolf in the Dark Continent......looks like Gon will have to search for his father in the Dark Continent in the future.
Beyond and the Zodiacs will be the first adventurers that manage to successfully infiltrate the Dark Continent officially, and will also establish the first ground base for operations and maybe even starting the cartography of the first continent.
*There has to be a time skip for Gon, Killua, Kurapika and Leorio because right now they are far too weak for the Dark Continent. My prediction is 5 years and by then Leerio will be a doctor. He could be a great benefit in healing injuries and maybe train to become more proficient in nen usage. Killua is with Alluka and so I wouldn't doubt he has many battles protecting his younger bro and so expect him to grow in power. Don't know how Kurapica will come into this because he can't use his nen abilities without fighting the Phantom Troupe but Togashi will make it work or he will go with something completely different. Time will tell.
