Dragon Raja (Chinese novels)

Dragon Raja (Chinese: 龙族; pinyin: Lóngzú) is a series of serializing fantasy novels written by Jiang Nan.

There are now 4 volumes (including 6 books) published now, with an extra story titled The Wings of Lament (哀悼之翼; Āidào zhī Yì) and released only on magazine .

Combining fantasy, courage, persistence and the true meaning of friendship, the series encourages its young readers to grow up in a world full of unexpected challenges. At the same time, it is a story about loneliness. Fulfilling one's duty, as well as protecting the people one holds most dear, is a responsibility one has to take alone. Under the cover of heart-pumping, mind-thrilling adventures, millions of readers find courage and strengths in the series.

Since the release of the first volume on April 1, 2010, the series has gained immense popularity, critical acclaim and commercial success in China, each and every one of the first 6 titles of the series has championed the best seller list with more than 2,000,000 copies sold. It attracted a lot of young teenager readers, and have remained one of the preeminent cornerstones of youth and fantasy literature.

Plot[]

Dragon Raja I: The Blazing Dawnlight[]

Lu Mingfei (路明非), also known as Ricardo M. Lu, an 18-year-old high school student, who was applying to universities in United States, received a weird admission letter from a college named Cassel near Chicago. Once he took on the special railway express CC1000 to the mysterious Cassel College, what awaited for him were crazy lessons, strange teachers and all kinds of creepy classmates. Besides all these unexpected things, he was informed by the college that a disaster was happening under the Three Gorges Dam in China, and a war between human and dragons was on the way...

Dragon Raja II: Eyes of the Bereaved[]

During his first year's summer vacation of Cassel College, Ricardo M. Lu received an invitation to a class reunion from his high school classmates just on his birthday. In the meantime, an urgent dragon-related mission from Cassel College was assigned to him and another student Chu Zihang (楚子航). However, the maverick Chu Zihang alone shouldered the whole task. After the mission was completed, the two boys immediately went to Chicago and started their new semester.

At Chicago railway station, they met a girl named Xia Mi (夏弥) and claimed herself a freshman of the Cassel College. As this girl showed up, a series mysterious incidents were happening...

Dragon Raja III: The Dark Moon Tide (I)[]

It was the second Cassel College's summer holiday for Ricardo M. Lu. A dangerous dragon heartbeat signal was discovered under the sea of Japan. Before this ominous indication developed into a certain catastrophe, Hilbert Ron Anjou, the principle of the Cassel College, appointed his three students, Caesar Gattuso, Chu Zihang and Ricardo M. Lu as special agents to resolve the crisis.

As soon as these three students took this confidential mission and arrived in Tokyo, they received warm reception from the Japanese branch. The three boys thought it would be a pleasant cooperation, and began their underwater mission. The submersible sent the team to an 8-kilometre-deep sea. They met the amazing Dragon City, and accidentally found the embryos of the dragons began to hatch. In the meantime, the whole Japanese branch suddenly lost contact and the situation became extremely critical. The trio was facing the most severe crisis ever...

Dragon Raja III: The Dark Moon Tide (II)[]

Historical remains of dragons were discovered and awaken by the Cassel trio. The trio escaped from the dragons' attacks, and safely returned to harbour. However, without any help and contact from neither the Cassel College nor Japanese branch, the three boys, Caesar Gattuso, Chu Zihang and Ricardo M. Lu got lost in Tokyo and trapped in Japanese mobs. They finally took a Japanese host club as temporary sanctuary, waited patiently for any chance to revenge, and complete their mission...

Dragon Raja III: The Dark Moon Tide (III)[]

Uesugi Erii (Japanese: 上杉絵梨衣), a girl from the Japanese branch, was designated as sacrifice to save the whole crisis. The trio was totally against this decision from the headmaster of the Japanese sect, and planned to take the girl away. Meanwhile, the White King of Dragon under the Sea of Japan was awakened, and Tokyo city was facing a catastrophic destruction...

Dragon Raja IV: The Abyss of Odin[]

The fourth year for Ricardo M. Lu in Cassel College started, he was appointed as the new chairman of the student union. Accidentally, he found his senior, Chu Zihang, literally disappeared. In addition, Ricardo is the only one who remembers his existence. While Ricardo was trying to figure these weird things out, a series of attacks against the college happened and he was suspected of being the attacker. Ricardo had no choice but reached out to Nuonuo (诺诺) who was Caesar Gattuso's fiancée and taking bridal training for help...

Release information[]

Video game[]

A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for mobile devices, titled Dragon Raja, was developed by Loong Entertainment^[1] and released for iOS and Android. It launched in North America, South America and EMEA regions on February 27, 2020.^[2]

The game is powered by Unreal Engine 4 from Epic Games^[3] Besides traditional game features such as PvE and PvP fights, there are also various minigames such as cooking and sports^[4] as well as exploration elements.^[5]

Reception[]

Dragon Raja, then known as Project:SU,^[6] was revealed at Games Developer Conference (GDC) 2019.^[7] Even before the official launch, there were a number of mainstream gaming websites worldwide reporting about the game, such as IGN Poland,^[8] Pocket Gamer,^[9] Noisy Pixel^[10] and mein MMO^[11] Most of the reports praised the graphics. It also won the "Most Anticipated Game" award at Unreal Open Day 2019.^[12]

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