Those dragons aren't too far off from those creatures he carries around in balls. I can imagine it didn't take much to charm him into that position.
That's true, and it's not likely that things will work in our favor, especially when it would be this lucky, but at the very least it doesn't seem like something that can work to our disadvantage this time. Either King takes it as a sign his power's still working over us, or it works as enough of a distraction to take his eyes off us a moment.